Kasz216 said:
richardhutnik said:
Kasz216 said:
College Graduate unemployment is actually EXTREMLY low despite the level of people working in their fields being low... and most of them working very low end jobs. The unemployment rate is over twice as high for people with a highschool education. College degree unemployment is only 3.9%... and that's including people who only accept jobs in their field and can afford to, and people like richard who theoretically have outdated skill sets despite booms in their industries. (IT is huge in need right now.)
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Exactly WHAT part of the IT industry is booming in regards to jobs? If it comes to software development, or anything that can be sent offshore, it is sent to India or Eastern Europe. The Dept. that does labor statistics reported that the amount of programmers needed will decline in the coming years.
Are you referring to people who work and maintain servers and such? Well, I know where I am, which is possibly a big part of it, there isn't a need for anyone. And local governments aren't hiring either. IBM has kept downsizing, leaving the local market where I am flooded with former IBMers. IBM does consolidating and whatnot. And if you are not local to a place, it is hard to end up even getting an interview with them. The times are not like they used to be at all.
Are you talking manufacturing in the IT industry? Well, chip manufacturing is down, and has been down, which came out recently when the GOP ripped a new one for saying during a video conference thing that a woman's husband should be able to find a job in chip design, because it was said hot, when hiring in that industry has been down. BLS info has computer manufacturing unemployment for May 2012 at 5.8%, which is better than other sectors, but still high:
http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag334.htm
Well, maybe one can get lucky enough to have the right mix of skills, certifications and portfolio and not been out of work for less than 6 months, then they can pick up a corp-to-corp 3 month contract, without benefits. Then go from contract to contract. That can happen. There is a need for JIT work, consisting of one being lucky enough to have the right mix of skills.
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I'd have to refind the article, but it was from the same original article talking about college education shrinking. IT jobs were the most unfilled and most created. That and engineering. For American jobs. Not overseas.
I'd be surprised if they were where you were though, you said in the food thread you live in a part of New York without much if any public transportation, which must mean your out in the countryside somewhere.
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Company employing people in the IT industry want the moon and stars, and don't want to pay to train anyone, and also don't want to pay well, if they can. And they expect the market to magically deliver them every single thing they want. The jobs go unfullfilled because they make no effort to address the issue systemically, just bank on colleges magically producing them who they want, or trust that people will know enough to get them their magic mix of skills. And they will dispose of workers at a drop of the hat to. End result, they have a hard time staffing. When you make it hard to staff, you will have positions not filled. There are numerous laid off IT folk they could hire, but they won't. The want the magic mix to "hit the ground running". And they want it from people who are currently working. Again, make it hard to work, and they aren't staffed.
I am actually near Poughkeepsie, NY, out in the suburbs, and it is heavily dependent on a car where I am staying (with family). They do run loop buses, but those are not ideal if you want to work, no matter how bad and low paying the jobs are. The area was built to support IBM. Then IBM went all downsizey, and it hasn't kept up. There are issues with the lack of apartments to rent also.
Pretty much IBM downsizes and area fails to recover jobwise, so it finds itself best suited to be a bed community for NYC, and people doing long commutes. It helped prop up real estate prices... well, until the financial meltdown. With the illegal Mexicans in this area also, it is a regular microcosm of what faces America, right down hoping green and green jobs would save everyone.
