Ask The Headhunter: Unemployment -- Made in America by Employers | The Business Desk with Paul Solman | PBS NewsHour | PBS:
... Human resources executives run around in their corporate offices with their eyes closed, throwing billions of dollars at applicant tracking systems (ATSes) and job boards like Taleo, Monster.com and LinkedIn, and they pretend no one can see they are dancing in circles buck naked. HR keeps talking about a talent shortage, but the only talent shortage is in the HR offices. HR executives need to learn how to match up the 3.9 million vacancies with some of the 25 million under-employed.
What's going on? The economy is certainly one factor, but businesses, the media and the federal government continue to ignore the structural problems in our employment system. I'll tell you what I think the main problems are...
Another highlight (but read the post, too):
...Employers claim job applicants lack the requisite skills and talents for today's jobs. But in "Why Good People Can't Get Jobs,"
Peter Cappelli reports that they are wrong. The quality of the American
worker pool has not diminished. Rather, American companies:
- Don't want to pay market value to hire the right workers.
- Don't want to train talented workers to do a new job.
- Are content to keep using ATSes that don't get the job done.
Cappelli points out that employers believe they save money when they
leave jobs vacant because their accounting systems track the cost of
having workers on the payroll, but they fail to track the cost of
leaving work undone. Employers run the numbers, and they seem to come up
with junk profitability: Fewer Employees = Lower Costs = Higher Profits.
Employers who believe this are misguided or downright foolish. They
should stop regarding workers as a cost, start treating them as
investments and ensure that each worker pays off in higher profits.
Employers should get a business plan and make their employment systems accountable..
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