On Feb. 19 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT, CBS News with Scott Pelley will broadcast a discussion with the 99ers who are long-term unemployed. They believe they are being discriminated against by potential employers from the appearance of being ‘lazy.’
However, with the exception of the 99ers and other innocent victims, there appears to be another crisis: Generational differences in the workforce (click here for peer reviewed material).
Getting the long term jobless back to work
Many in the younger generation grew up believing the higher the education, the more successful they will be. This goal set their standards unrealistically high as the ‘sense of self’ wanted better jobs than what the previous generation had. We are intelligent individuals, too smart to do ‘those’ less than desirable jobs. (Continue below)
They are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for higher education, sometimes hundreds of thousands, to avoid what they may believe to be hard labor.
But the younger generations may be erroneously confusing hard labor with ‘skilled’ labor.
According to CNNMoney, United States factories are creating many new jobs, but there are no skilled workers to fill the positions (not to be confused with highly educated).
Desperately seeking Americans for factory jobs 2/16
Dennis Winslow, the owner of Win-Tech, located in Kennesaw, Ga., has been trying to add more workers to his staff, but his challenge is to find skilled workers among the unemployed. Winslow needs manual machinists, quality control inspectors and machinists trained to use computer-controlled systems, but can’t find anyone with these specific skills.
"I am coming to the conclusion that this [situation] has become the new normal," said Winslow. "Being a machinist once was considered a respectable trade. But young Americans just don't consider manufacturing to be a sexy vocation." CNNMoney
Winslow noted that most people possessing the skills he needs today are baby boomers, many of whom already work at his factory.
The experts believe since the United States outsourced its manufacturing jobs over the last few decades, the manufacturing skills [talent] of a machinist are now limited. Machinists make well over $40,000 a year after about one year in trade school followed by an apprenticeship at a manufacturing facility.
In the CBS broadcast, Pelley discussed with Joe Carbone, president of The Workplace, a new program to assist the long-term jobless, which is called Platform to Employment. It is hopeful that the program will re-instill the dignity and confidence in the people who have long-term joblessness.
Now to address the generational differences.
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