Good article written by Jeb Bush about the employment issues ahead

[kmgilroy89]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/08/perspectives/jeb-bush-american-worker-training/index.html

There's a big gap between the jobs currently available and the jobs people are qualified to take. So the question is obviously, how do we bridge that gap and get the 7 million job openings filled? 4 year college degrees are too vague and lack technical skills. However, I think if people want to embark on niche technical skills they have to be pretty certain they will get a job from it.

 

[UsualName]

This topic stays on a regular rotation. Employers want college educated employees to do jobs that don’t need a full four year degree when they are hired. Employers retort that they want to hire employees for long term and a four year degree will be beneficial as they move into management etc. And round and round we go.

There is no good answer on this.

Anecdotally, when our lenders want a review they ask for a company profile that includes among other things the education levels of our employees. For us a more educated workforce improves our access to capital. So we have an incentive to hire college educated workers.

 

[piezoe]

There is an answer that fits as a reasonable solution to the problems Jeb Bush mentions. It is a return to tracking in our public schools just as we had prior to the great society. This produces a natural selection process. When we did away with tracking, we weakened both liberal arts education and labor force training. These are two different things and America needs to be strong in both. We need to return to tracking in our public schools, and we need to respect both tracks equally and make sure our pay scales have a firm floor that can provide a good living for anyone who works hard and shows up and at the same time provides a top end that properly reflects the level of training, skills, talent and intellect required for particular jobs. We must work to eliminate regulatory capture that distorts pay scales from what they would naturally be.

 

[jem]

Excellent idea for a country which controls its borders.


Very hard to do when you bring in 1.2 million immigrants from different schools per year.

I have an idea Let's get good jobs going for all our citizens then worry about bringing in more democrat voters.

There is an answer that fits as a reasonable solution to the problems Jeb Bush mentions. It is a return to tracking in our public schools just as we had prior to the great society. This produces a natural selection process. When we did away with tracking, we weakened both liberal arts education and labor force training. These are two different things and America needs to be strong in both. We need to return to tracking in our public schools, and we need to respect both tracks equally and make sure our pay scales have a firm floor that can provide a good living for anyone who works hard and shows up and at the same time provides a top end that properly reflects the level of training, skills, talent and intellect required for particular jobs. We must work to eliminate regulatory capture that distorts pay scales from what they would naturally be.

 

[CaptainObvious]

There is an answer that fits as a reasonable solution to the problems Jeb Bush mentions. It is a return to tracking in our public schools just as we had prior to the great society. This produces a natural selection process. When we did away with tracking, we weakened both liberal arts education and labor force training. These are two different things and America needs to be strong in both. We need to return to tracking in our public schools, and we need to respect both tracks equally and make sure our pay scales have a firm floor that can provide a good living for anyone who works hard and shows up and at the same time provides a top end that properly reflects the level of training, skills, talent and intellect required for particular jobs. We must work to eliminate regulatory capture that distorts pay scales from what they would naturally be.

Tracking? Natural selection? How long would it take before we heard the howls of the woke screaming discrimination? It's a great idea and it works, but requires a society that hasn't gone full retard.

 

[CaptainObvious]

This topic stays on a regular rotation. Employers want college educated employees to do jobs that don’t need a full four year degree when they are hired. Employers retort that they want to hire employees for long term and a four year degree will be beneficial as they move into management etc. And round and round we go.

There is no good answer on this.

Anecdotally, when our lenders want a review they ask for a company profile that includes among other things the education levels of our employees. For us a more educated workforce improves our access to capital. So we have an incentive to hire college educated workers.

Employers do this because they know most 18 year olds aren't mature enough for the workforce so they want some college hoping that the little shits will grow up a bit during that period of time. Worked well for many years and then the woke decided college should just be 4 years of protesting against whatever the flavor of the month offense is. Add in a curriculum of courses which are of no use in the real job market and you end up with a bunch of 22 year olds with the maturity of 12 year olds and no skills. It is now impossible to go back to what worked without listening to the shreaks of oppression which are sure to come.