Manpower Offers its Two Cents

Have you filed your recommendations on education, workforce development, immigration, regulatory reform, and health care?  Well, if you haven’t, other people have.  Apparently, it’s part of a day in the life of a corporations to weigh in their suggestions on national issues.

ManpowerGroup was among those that offered suggestions on all these issues at an event on Capitol Hill.  The goal was to spur job creation and improve employee retention in the United States at the event hosted by the HR Policy Association.  Mara Swan, ManpowerGroup Executive Vice President of Global Strategy and Talent and an Association Director, represented the vision of her company.  Along with other leaders, she worked to create a “Blueprint for Jobs in the 21st Century: A Vision for a Competitive Human Resource Policy for the American Workforce.”

“This blueprint rightfully affirms that we are facing a supply-demand bottleneck, as employers tell us they are forced to select workers from a pool of candidates lacking relevant qualifications and experience,” Swan said.  “Despite high unemployment nationwide, companies continue to be frustrated by their inability to find the people with the right skills to drive business growth. This underscores our nation’s over-supply of available workers, and under-supply of qualified talent which places the country’s economic growth in jeopardy.”

From your end, does this seem like an accurate portrayal of the job market in this country?  Are companies content with the available workforce, or are they unable to find qualified employees?