Re: Ominous Change in Visitor industry...


On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Maren at google wrote:

the likes of you and me have higher paying jobs (and
unlike me, for all I know you're from here). As long
as you have to import electronics technicians,
engineers, scientists, etc. because they're almost
impossible to find locally I think we'd better think
about educating people better. (We have some very
good local technical people, don't get me wrong, but
they're hard to come by)

It's not hard to train new workers. Why do you have to
hire a college graduate with specific mainland
experience? The hotel industry does a good job at that.
They'll teach job-seekers how to speak standard
english, and do simple math, and some cultural stuff,
and in a few months they have a beginning worker. The
shipyard in Pearl Harbor had an apprenticeship program
that took high school kids and in two years turned out
well-trained technicians. Some even became engineers
through scholarships with the feds. I think that the
program started coming to an end arround 35 years ago
when women were allowed into the program.

Then college graduates who were supervisory clerks with
many years of experience decided to go in the program
because of the better pay that the apprentices got.
These women complained about simple-minded training
they got in english and math and science and the boring
jobs that they got. They were interested in doing more
chalenging ones and got good responses from the Equal
Opportunity Officer and Shipyard Commander for their
criticisms of management.

Anyway, the point is that many companies can afford to
hire higher cheap labor that is subsidized by the state
for on-the-job training-- both young and IIRC older
displaced workers that need retraining. For the smarter
trainees, you may find that six months or less is
sufficient to get useful work out of them considering
the pay that they get.

Even for the more specialized positions, a bored
federal or state worker might be interested in
switching from reviewing electrical wiring in
architectural plans to electronics stuff if you were
interested in hiring them on that basis.

It's too bad that management only complains about these
staffing problems when there are opportunities for
alternate strategies. When there is more competition,
then perhaps they will see the light.

.

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