Post by ck4829 on Dec 28, 2016 12:23:09 GMT
— Peter Cappelli is the author of Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs, and he argues that the reason we keep reading about companies being unable to fill open positions isn’t because of terrible applicants, unskilled and wrong-skilled, but because companies are pretty terrible at hiring. One point in particular he refutes: That the jobs-applying workforce has a skills-mismatch with jobs openings. I find this heartening. Annoying, obviously, but heartening. The applicants are alright.
He blames this pervasiveness of the myth in part on anecdotal news features about the jobs situation:
“Employers, when they say they’ve got a skills gap, that there are no applicants out there who meet their needs, they are self-diagnosing the situation. What’s really happening is they’re just not able to hire, but you don’t know why that is, right? And the skills-gap story is their diagnosis. It’s basically saying there’s nobody out there, when in fact, it turns out it’s typically the case that employers’ requirements are crazy; they’re not paying enough, or their applicant screening is so rigid that nobody gets through.”
thebillfold.com/the-skills-gap-is-actually-the-employers-too-picky-gap-3a4c3ea8d64a#.55yvr093e
He blames this pervasiveness of the myth in part on anecdotal news features about the jobs situation:
“Employers, when they say they’ve got a skills gap, that there are no applicants out there who meet their needs, they are self-diagnosing the situation. What’s really happening is they’re just not able to hire, but you don’t know why that is, right? And the skills-gap story is their diagnosis. It’s basically saying there’s nobody out there, when in fact, it turns out it’s typically the case that employers’ requirements are crazy; they’re not paying enough, or their applicant screening is so rigid that nobody gets through.”
thebillfold.com/the-skills-gap-is-actually-the-employers-too-picky-gap-3a4c3ea8d64a#.55yvr093e