Employers Need to Stop Whining About Talent Shortages - Liz Ryan, Forbes

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Oh no, not another press release in my inbox! PR people think I'm a reporter. They send me press releases about boring stories they want me to cover, and this one is typical: "New study shows Skills Gap in low-tech manufacturing sector." Skills gap? That means that employers want people to magically show up equipped to do exactly what a plant supervisor wants them to be able to do, at whatever rate the company wants to pay. That's a skills gap? That's a talent shortage? Read more here

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