Greed for Brains

Recently, the news in Canada has been about the lack of skilled workers to fill job vacancies.

Although there is a large sector of the population unemployed, especially amongst the younger workers, Canadian companies have been bemoaning the lack of skilled workers with the right set of skills to fill the job vacancies now present.

It would appear to this "scribe" that what goes around has finally come around. For decades, companies have been so interested in the bottom line, the CEO bonus packages and the desire to be the biggest fish in the pond that they have gone the way of the Dot Coms. Personal wealth v/s long term survivability.

Had all those corporate thinkers expanded their thinking beyond their own wallets they would have realized that when you fail to invest in the future, there isn't one. By failing to spend the necessary funds on training the future workers, the corporate future will remain unfulfilled.

The solution, training new workers, could take as long as 15 years. That leaves these giants of enterprise with a dilemma. Hire the unskilled, spend the money necessary to quickly teach them the necessary skills, or,  see your market share dwindle or disappear, then go out of business.

The Dot Com.s had lots of brains, but no foresight. The corporations of today have no brains, no foresight, and it would now appear, a rapidly disappearing work force.

In Europe, for centuries, the young were taught the skills necessary to fulfill the jobs that would be there. In North America, the industries have not yet learned this concept of spend for tomorrow, or there won't be one.

All I can say to the North American CEO's is this...Tough S _ _ T....You reap what you sow and you have sowed nothing.