It's never been this hard for companies to find qualified workers

I wonder how much of that is attributed to companies wanting "turn key" employees only who need little/no training.


You hate to see the "entry level" job posting that automatically filters out every candidate with less than 3 years experience.

My previous company would rather spend 6 months or more short staffed than hire someone with less experience and spend 2-3 months training them. It was maddening.

Excellent point. I have seen several defense contractors who are screening out people without an active security clearance. The only way to get an active security clearance is to work for a company that does defense contracting. They are excluding a lot of talent that could get the clearance quickly once hired.

How much of this is relative to immigration?

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It's never been this hard for companies to find qualified workers

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Sounds like a good time to float resumés

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My previous company would rather spend 6 months or more short staffed than hire someone with less experience and spend 2-3 months training them. It was maddening.

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I hate hiring new people. it's a pain in the arse.

Usually if i'm short staffed and haven't hired anyone preemptively it's better. atleast now I have 1 person to do the work. if you hire someone you've got two people tied up. hiring if you're late to hire doesn't really help much especially if you don't see the work staying that level consistently.

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How much of this is relative to immigration?

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0. That’s a BS excuse. Just a couple years ago you heard nothing but ‘economy is great but pay hasn’t increased’. Well guess what people, this is what happens when pay increases. Employers get hard up because they can’t believe the price of labor, have to train people, etc.

Labor isn’t hard to find, cheap good labor is hard to find. If you add 20% to your pay, all of a sudden it’s not that hard to find applicants. This is coming from a small business owner. I’m not happy about it, but there’s a lot of talent out there willing to work. You just have to pay for it.

I disagree with needing immigrants. We aren’t that desperate.

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Never mind quality workers, I honestly don’t know how retail and food service is finding enough warm bodies at this point.

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Many of them have apps and screens for customers to order their own food, high tech machines that do half the cooking, etc.

But those jobs are mostly unskilled labor like HS kids and what not.

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I just run a chain restaurant and I am struggling. All that seems to be left is the extremely low skilled and job hoppers

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Isn’t that who has always filled jobs at chain restaurants?

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Then I have to raise prices to cover my increased labor costs and I start losing projects. This is coming from a small business owner.

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You are right! That’s part of the circle of business. Business owners have had it great the last 5-10 years. Economy was doing well and labor was cheap. Now economy is doing well and labor is expensive. Business owners have to change work to stay competitive. Everyone wants things to stay the same but there’s always a low guy on the totem pole fighting to get to the top which means things are always changing when the top gets stagnant.

The other option is you specialize and only take projects you can afford or that make more sense financially.

I think we have gotten to peak of, as already said in the thread, employers expecting cheap labor that’s educated and trained. No employers have been offering training programs lately. Now is where that starts to return because they can hire someone for cheap and train them for less then they can hire already trained people.