Time for private sector job training

SHORTAGE OF QUALIFIED WORKERS ON HORIZON

BETTER TO TRAIN AMERICANS THAN IMPORT WORKERS

The efforts to make America more competitive and increase the availability of good paying jobs will expose the shortage of qualified workers. It is in the nations best interest to encourage business's to train workers for the jobs that need to be filled. Most workers could be trained to fill these jobs with courses of less than a year.

This could be accomplished by possible tax credits for each worker trained and employed. Hopefully this will lessen he strain on social services and increase tax revenues in the long run. Business knows what it needs from its workers, who better to design and maintain courses to train workers. The emphasis should be placed on recruiting and offering placement in the latter years of high school.

These course could be offered at low cost to the qualified students and could be coupled with on the job training for part of the course. Starting early would hopefully offer students hope that if they are responsible they will have employment in their future.

The Auto manufacturers have been working on these type of courses by helping to support technical schools for auto technicians. They appear to be highly successful. This approach could be used by many more industries. 

I would expect we will see efforts in the near future to encourage this approach rather than hire workers from other parts of the world, while we have at present a low employment participation rate. There a plenty of workers who are not working at present.

We have a problem with employees who a suffering from forms of substance abuse and a high incidence of employee theft. After several terminations for these offenses they become almost unemployable. Hopefully if offered the chance for meaningful employment early in there lives they will be able to develop better work habits that will benefit themselves and society.