RothyBuyakI wonder why rule
I don’t think shortage means what they think it means. Just because you can’t find people at the price and working conditions you’re willing to offer doesn’t mean there’s a shortage. It might just mean that you’re cheap.
Well there can be a genuine shortage of people able to do a job, but that’s likely companies fault for not investing in training people to do the job in the first place.
If there aren’t enough humans to do work it’s a shortage. In fact every year more people move into retirement than young people enter the workforce. Europe is aging fast, US not that fast. Even China faces the demografic change: Average age of warehouse workers in China is 45 years.
jstiegleOn my team there are three guys 2 years out from retirement. Last time we posted one of their positions we had one applicant that passed the background checks. So when all three of them go I’m not sure we will be able to replace all of them. It’s gonna be a bitch.
What do the background checks check for?
I work in high security IT and you can’t have had a Felony in the last five years and a huge list of specific offenses that you can’t have had for 15 years. Then there is something about large debt and who you owe it to as you could be compromised via financials. We didn’t have a huge applicant pool to begin with so when so many bombed the background I was pretty sad.