Worker shortages drive calls for high school curriculum changes

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3. Remember when companies used to train?

Then they cut the workforce while expecting their workers to produce more. Now, when an experienced worker leaves there are no workers that came in as entry level trainees to take their place so they need to hire employees that gained experience working at other companies (or in other countries).

There is no shortage of workers capable of learning the skills but there may well be a shortage of experienced workers in a skill. Couple that with the fact that companies want to pay less and less for these skills and yeah, you have a shortage of workers.

Time for these companies to take personal responsibility and start training their own workforce instead of expecting the public and individuals to pay for the training.