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If you ain’t raising wages, can you truly bitch about a “skills gap?”
Little screenshot from an article my friend sent me:
Read the end part.
I’ve written before about the skills gap — I think it’s largely a joke. It’s usually the result of hiring managers and recruiters not being on the same page + companies not willing to pay for talent. It’s much less that the skills don’t exist and much more that people don’t know how to value them.
We’ve all seen the resumes that demand 17 bullet points including speaking Italian, a past in pornography, classical piano experience, and you once worked at Google. (That would be an interesting person.) You scroll over to LinkedIn salary calculator or whatever, or ask the hiring manager.
“Oh, we’re targeting $63,000 for this role.”
Right. You’ll never get a good person with 17 skill sets including porno and Italian and piano at 63. You just won’t. That’s not how — not ever — the free market is/was supposed to work. But companies believe they can work it that way, then bitch about a skills gap on the back-end, all the while doing nothing to raise wages.
Sad.
