Employment is very field specific
In a brutal job market, here's a task that might sound easy: Fill jobs in nursing, engineering and energy research that pay $55,000 to $60,000, plus benefits.
Yet even with 15 million people hunting for work, even with the unemployment rate nearing 10 percent, some employers can't find enough qualified people for good-paying career jobs.
The problem is that that layoffs are in certain industries and the jobs are in other industries, and they are not jobs you can just switch over on. The in demand jobs are technical specialties that require training.
To a certain extent this is companies demanding too precise a fit for jobs. They think that in a bad job market they can pick up exactly the right employee at a cut rate price. But for actual specialty jobs, there are simply not that many with the right training and experience, so they are always in demand.
But a lot of it is that certain entire industries have been destroyed by this depression, and that has stuck a lot of people with experience that isn't of much value to other companies.
It's become especially hard to find accountants, health care workers, software sales representatives, actuaries, data analysts, physical therapists and electrical engineers, labor analysts say.
A lot of those jobs are ones where a computer background would be useful. But how did software sales make that list? It's really neither a technical nor a specialty job, most of it is usual sales crud, a lot of it isn't much different the a used care salesman.
Jay
