Shortage Of Workers In All Skilled Trade Positions In The US... Any Fresh Ideas On Finding Candidates???

There are 2.6 million people out of work here in the UK..

Can you get any green cards??

I'll come work for you buddy.

I'm at a loss on finding skilled construction or manufacturing candidates. Everyone is going to college and there are no workers doing the "dirty jobs."

Other than Craigslist, Careerbuilder, Monster, LinkedIN and Facebook, I have no new ideas on finding people. Throwing this at GLP hoping some crazy fucker or meth head has some brilliant idea that the average sheeple cannot think of!

My clients will pay anything. They are willing to pay union prices $30-$40/hr just for journeyman. The companies who aren't paying now-a-day will never get good workers.

"Just for Journeymen" ? You clearly have no clue what a trade Journeyman is and what a long hard road it is to honestly call yourself that.
Just a Journeyman ! That is classic and very sad at the same time.

Senor

I weeell workz for you.Send plenty moneeeeey to:


Jose Jose Jnr.
Donkey Shagging street
Some shit town
Mexico



When I gets you money,I weeeell sneek into Merica and works for you,yes? I also cut lawns.

PS.You have also job for my seeeester Manuela,she good house-keeper!

I have working knowledge of almost every construction trade, I was a journeyman licensed electrician. I was a GC for a number of years. I have my OSHA 300. Who the hell are you?

I'll tell you who i'm not.
I'm not a social parasite that sits behind a desk hiring out other peoples labor for a way to fat cut off the action.
And you only came to confirm my belief that most electricians are a-Holes?

That is a good idea, but that is more of a long-term idea. A green candidate is unfortunately nothing to me because I need someone with experience. I'd pretty much be interviewing them to see if they have a good personality and look presentable and then keep them in mind one year down the road in case they gained experience. Thanks though, not bad thinking.

Anything else?

Because of your retarded statement, I have decided to Psychically locate you, please tell me if I'm close.
You are within 100 miles of Bradford, to the West and South most likely, Manchester,Preston,Liverpool triangle ?

Ha! Ha!


Meester, me use proxy, me mucho clever!

Me mucho clever than you, you spell 'Psychically' wrong!

You no good boss,me more clevero than boss-man.

I dance round my sombrero at you!

Thats cool! check out one of our more recent visitors from Mexico, he looks just like your smiley avitar, we get all kinds around here, you know.

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I could use a proxy too but I just don't G.A.F. anymore.

I find them for direct hire fees, no temp work so fuck off! I've been in the trades as well so don't talk to me like I'm some desk jockey because I've put in my time. Started as a scrub and ended up running my own company for 7 years.

I work with an ad agency that runs ads in 180 newspapers across Wisconsin M-F. I dropped $1200 to do this for 5 straight weeks and I received one call. I feel like newspaper ads are no longer effective. I dropped $400 on an ad for plumbers in Alabama and I had one call and the guy was fucking hookers in my hotel room and shitting all over the place and did terrible work! No good experiences with this...

I was in construction for 30 + years, I know lots of guys that have their knees,hips,backs FUBAR !
I have never had Medical or Dental coverage.
I have busted my ass for decades,just to pay the bills.
I was offered a job in Vegas running a crew, if I could speak Spanish, Mi no hable mucho Espaniol.
Immigrants were trucked in and We American guys were replaced by guys from Mexico who would do the job for half the price.
I have got no problem with the Mexican guy's, many of them do fine work and they bust their asses.
They do very good sheetrock and plastering,in particular.
They save their money and sleep 5 or 10 to an apartment in a hood where nobody asks too many questions.
This is not a line of B.S. I'm intimately familiar with the construction biz and it's realities.
They save their money and go back to Mexico and buy a little Ranchero and live the good life.
In the USA, the Mexicans also run Dope (Pot,Meth,Heroin.) and use Mexican restaurants to Launder the $$$ and make more $$$. They are smart,in a crazy kind of way, smart like a fox.
It is no big secret.
If I was a guy in Mexico, I would move to El Norte and start working, save up my cash and go home and buy a ranch.
Good luck to them,to be honest.
But that leaves your average Black or White American in a FUBAR scene.
My point is, Skilled guys could once make a living by learning and maintaining their skills,They could support a family and buy a house. Not any more.
If you can get in a Nepotistic union and live of the Federal teet,you can make some bank, but you are basically 'robbing your neighbors,via taxation for Prevailing no-where but the government wages.
So your paycheck is welfare,not free market.
Skilled workers are Tax Targets.The game is rigged against them now, that is why you can not find them, they are done,finished,finito.

I was in construction for 30 + years, I know lots of guys that have their knees,hips,backs FUBAR !
I have never had Medical or Dental coverage.
I have busted my ass for decades,just to pay the bills.
I was offered a job in Vegas running a crew, if I could speak Spanish, Mi no hable mucho Espaniol.
Immigrants were trucked in and We American guys were replaced by guys from Mexico who would do the job for half the price.
I have got no problem with the Mexican guy's, many of them do fine work and they bust their asses.
They do very good sheetrock and plastering,in particular.
They save their money and sleep 5 or 10 to an apartment in a hood where nobody asks too many questions.
This is not a line of B.S. I'm intimately familiar with the construction biz and it's realities.
They save their money and go back to Mexico and buy a little Ranchero and live the good life.
In the USA, the Mexicans also run Dope (Pot,Meth,Heroin.) and use Mexican restaurants to Launder the $$$ and make more $$$. They are smart,in a crazy kind of way, smart like a fox.
It is no big secret.
If I was a guy in Mexico, I would move to El Norte and start working, save up my cash and go home and buy a ranch.
Good luck to them,to be honest.
But that leaves your average Black or White American in a FUBAR scene.
My point is, Skilled guys could once make a living by learning and maintaining their skills,They could support a family and buy a house. Not any more.
If you can get in a Nepotistic union and live of the Federal teet,you can make some bank, but you are basically 'robbing your neighbors,via taxation for Prevailing no-where but the government wages.
So your paycheck is welfare,not free market.
Skilled workers are Tax Targets.The game is rigged against them now, that is why you can not find them, they are done,finished,finito.

I'll tell you who i'm not.
I'm not a social parasite that sits behind a desk hiring out other peoples labor for a way to fat cut off the action.
And you only came to confirm my belief that most electricians are a-Holes?

My clients will pay anything. They are willing to pay union prices $30-$40/hr just for journeyman. The companies who aren't paying now-a-day will never get good workers.

$30-$40/hr without bennies is jack shit.

Are you in Alabama?

My clients will pay anything. They are willing to pay union prices $30-$40/hr just for journeyman.

That's right.... $62,400-$83,200 based off a 40 hour work week is jack shit? You work OT like almost everyone in construction does and you'd be at six figures... Or does the union not pay OT? I'm sure all the people making 30-40k who have college degrees would like to choke you out for such an absurd comment!

No one wants to work for the union anymore.

No? Is that why my best friend retired from road construction at the age of 57? Working non-union, you end up with ZERO.

Maybe they should train people.

Lol... Hey buddy, we don't do temp work only direct hire fees. You must be a life-long temper so you have no clue what a direct hire opportunity is. We get paid to network and find these hard to find candidates. For your average direct hire you can call up to 300 candidates just to find one person... You really think 1 or 2 HR people can handle that type of load when they need 5-10 permanent people?

You have no idea what I do so....

OVERVIEW

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment Standards Administration's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) administers laws and regulations requiring minimum wages and fringe benefits to be paid to workers performing construction work on federally-funded contracts or providing services to the federal government.

Federal construction contractors are required to pay their workers no less than the locally prevailing wages and fringe benefits. WHD issues wage determinations that set forth the required wages and fringe benefits to be paid by occupation and locality.

Contractors performing services for the federal government are required to pay service employees in various classes no less than the wage rates and fringe benefits found prevailing in the locality, or the rates (including prospective increases) contained in a predecessor contractor's collective bargaining agreement.


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