The Scary Thing About Being Long-Term Unemployed: Job-Training Doesn't Work

[girl gone mad]

The Scary Thing About Being Long-Term Unemployed: Job-Training Doesn't Work



One of the most depressing jobless charts is the one that shows the number of folks unemployed for 27 weeks or longer.

There's not much prospect of this number coming down sharply, in large part because these (non-)workers are likely to have the largest skills mismatch with potential employers.

And unless the housing boom comes back in a gigantic way, and brings all the attendant industries along with it, this problem will likely remain.

Why?

Because job training programs basically don't work, except in rare, specific situations.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-scary-thing-about-being-long-term-unemployed-job-training-doesnt-work-2010-7#ixzz0u7cXsQwD

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

Do we know antything recessions and job retraining
in say Europe?

Something to compare that to?

[Recursion]

2. Spreadsheets and word processing

It's sad that we look at that as "job training".

The article seems to be saying that "training in basic computer skills does not directly and immediately translate to job offers", which seems obvious on its face. And simply being able to use Word and Excel doesn't qualify you for any job in particular that I can think of.

Did they look at anyone trained to be, say, a draftsman? a plumber? a network tech? an auto mechanic? All of these have more or less official apprenticeships.