Engineer

There are several reasons it's hard for employers to find qualified engineers, says Jonas Prising, Manpower's president for the Americas. First, employers don't want to hire two or three engineers with a variety of specialties, they want one engineer who is trained in several areas. Another reason is that there are far too few new college graduates in engineering to replace retiring engineers. Also, the Obama administration's pledge to rebuild America's infrastructure is increasing the need for talented engineers.






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Nurse

There are several causes of this shortage. First, America's aging population requires more caregivers for chronic illnesses affecting older people. Also, advances in medical care require more nurses to assist in treatment. However, there's a shortage of nurse educators, so while demand for professionals is great, there aren't enough teachers to train the next generation fast enough.



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Skilled Trades

This includes a variety of workers with specialized skills acquired at vocational schools or in on-the-job-training during apprenticeships.. The professions include electrician, bricklayer, carpenter, cabinetmaker, mason, plumber and welder. There's a shortage of these workers because so many young people are encouraged to attend four-year colleges, not vocational schools. Also, these jobs are physically demanding. "It's one of the baffling shortages of skills, since they're well-paid, flexible positions," Prising says. "You can have gainful employment for a long time. This isn't work that will be outsourced or disappear. It's locally based work with geographically transferable skills."

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Skilled Trades



Teacher
Many schools find it hard to hire qualified teachers, because becoming a teacher often requires a graduate degree, but salaries remain relatively low. Meanwhile, they need more teachers, with many baby boomers retiring.

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Technician

These are workers in engineering, technical, operations or maintenance roles who may be classified as either skilled or semi-skilled workers. They often support professionals who have deeper skill bases. Like workers in skilled trades, technicians are trained at vocational schools, and they're in short supply because so many high school students are encouraged to go to four-year colleges instead.




Technician
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Driver

Truck driver, to be specific. They are hard to recruit because they have to be away from home for long periods, receive low wages, work very long hours and put up with a fluctuating workload.


Driver
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We have heard of highways being used as runways in some countries. But this is the first time I have seen roads crossing a runway and road traffic being stopped by a traffic light while an aircraft takes off or lands!
Absolutely amazing! If this were to happen in our country, some basic questions would have to be addressed viz.:
(a) What if the traffic lights fail or malfunction? (In spite of any generators or invertors used as a back-up power source).
(b) Will rickshaws and pedestrians observe the traffic lights? Would they not feel that they are obviously entitled to take short-cuts across some part of the runway?
(c) Will some motorists and motorcyclists and auto rickshaws not dash across the red traffic light whenever, in their experience-based judgment, a landing (or taking-off) aircraft seems to be not close enough.
(d) What about holy cows wandering across the airport?
(e) In case a VIP (Very Important Parasite) is coming on the road, who will have priority? The parasite's motorcade or the aircraft?
(f) And the security guys will go MAD!!!! That would be fun to see!!
(g) What if the pink chaddi brigade or the maratha manoos or some such freak group decides to take out a procession????
The mind boggles……


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