Early last year, I highlighted a story in the New York Times about the alarming trends in the FAA and the looming shortage of air traffic controllers. Well, it’s a year later, and the problem is just as bad, if not worse, with 15,000 air traffic controllers (70% of the FAA’s employees) expected to retire [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, the hardest jobs to fill at the moment, even in a tough economy are:
1. Engineers
2. Machinists & Machine Operators
3. Skilled Manual Trades
4. Technicians
5. Sales Representatives
6. Accounting & Finance Professionals
7. Mechanics
8. Laborers
9. IT
10. Production Operators
Given our experience in helping employers find qualified candidates for their openings, I’d say the WSJ [...]
In an excellent article this week (Lexington|Help Not Wanted), The Economist argues that the absurdly low cap on H1B visas is proving to be devastating to the U.S. economy. Allowing only 85,000 qualified immigrants to enter the country per year to start companies, practice medicine, advance science, etc. makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. As the [...]
Air-traffic controllers, many of which are just beginning to reach retirement age, are retiring at a much faster rate than expected. Though it was known that many controllers are becoming eligible for retirement given the mass hiring that took place following the 1981 firing of 12,000 air-traffic controllers by President Reagan, the pace of [...]
Novations, a business performance consulting company, just released a study on what companies are doing to capture the knowledge that will be lost as baby boomers retire in increasing numbers in the years ahead. Shockingly, the study found that 73% have no knowledge transfer process in place, and an additional 23% have only an informal [...]
The 2008 HR Trendbook had some interesting articles on a variety of topics, but two statistics caught my attention. The first was that in 2005, Hispanics represented 14% of the U.S. population but 22% of the U.S. Workforce. If trends continue, Hispanics will represent 32% of the population in 2050 and 55% of the [...]
Since I’m not a journalist (in case there was any doubt), and blogging isn’t my full-time occupation, and I try to balance the time I spend on this blog every day with all the other things I have to do, I don’t really mind when I miss a story I’d like to have posted on [...]
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel of recruiting bloggers at a recruiting seminar in Minneapolis. The event was organized by Paul DeBettignies (aka, MN Headhunter) and Steven Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter.com fame. It was an excellent event and those two deserve enormous credit for pulling it together and [...]
Scott Karp’s blog recently highlighted an excellent analysis from Compete.com on the true catalyst behind Craigslist’s success in the online classified space. Written by Stephen Bragg and entitled ‘Craigslist’s Dirty Little Secret,’ the post basically states that the largest segment of Craigslist’s traffic is generated by ‘Erotic Services’ classifieds, and that within that category, [...]
In yesterday’s post about the recent deal activity in the media and classified space, I forgot to mention another March deal. Taleo acquired JobFlash in an asset purchase worth about $3 million. The original investors in the deal, including Maveron LLC, Mosaic Venture Partners, and the Band of Angels, invested about $5.45 million in the [...]