Saturday, October 22, 2011

Part time job sucks - Wake up USA


Part time jobs during early school help students meet expences reducing burden on parents. It has long term negative impact on over all economy and society at large. If students earn at early they think that they can live and earn without higher education. It is not popular here in India because here such low paid jobs are filled by lower section of society, Indian middle class parents who are the largest highly educated class/group in India never would like to see their children working part time for a low profile job such as in a restaurent,a meason, home delivery, courier delivery, billing at counter etc which doesn't require specialized skill. Imagine an Indian officer's or middle class family's son/daughter studying to become scientist/officer/professors and doing such part time work in India - impossible
The US economy is confronting ill effect of part time job culture. Today there are hundreds of thousands of vascant position in USA but hardly skilled applicants. It is more difficult to fill a vacancy which reouire manufacturing skills, science, mathmetics, computers.
American colleges are producing fewer math and science graduates as students favor social sciences, whose workload is perceived to be manageable, leading to a skills mismatch.
Math, engineering, technology and computer science students accounted for about 11.1 percent of college graduates in 1980, according to government data. That share dropped to about 8.9 percent in 2009.
Unemployment in manufacturing is at 8.4 percent, below the overall rate of 9.1 percent. According to the Labor Department's latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey, there were 240,000 open jobs in manufacturing in August up 38.7 percent from a year ago.
Siemens Corp., the U.S. arm of Germany's Siemens AG (SI.N), has over 3,000 jobs open all over the country. More than half require science, technology, engineering and math-related skills.
A survey by ManpowerGroup found that a record 52 percent of U.S. employers have difficulty filling critical positions within their organizations -- up from 14 percent in 2010.
ATS which counts manufacturing behemoths Caterpillar and Motorola among its clients, has at any given time about 200 open positions which can take 90 to a hundred days to fill them.
Contour Precision, based in Clover, South Carolina, does contract work for the energy and aerospace industries. It is currently looking for six technicians. It has had positions open since last year.
It's better to have short term difficulty rather long term everlasting damage. Wake up USA.

--Kaushal
--KaushalSpeed

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