Saturday, June 2, 2018

Scarce Posts For Scarce Skills?!

Isn't it upsetting that so many scarce skilled jobs are equally scarce to come by? While populations sit on degrees, diplomas and certificates at home or resort to doing other forms of work from their actual qualifications, this situation is increasingly absurd and has to change.

But How???

Algorithms are not so hard to figure out and put together. Surely if we can forecast the number of posts for a particular profession every year, (government should have that information) then we could match up the number of available posts to those skilled & seeking them, and at least saturate the market to a reasonable point.

Another idea could be to provide incentives  for individuals to create private posts for these types of skills; or rather yet import post-creating internationals and multinationals to increase skilled jobs and get the quota right.

Perhaps these skills shouldn't be termed scarce if demand doesn't exceed the need. Institutions that provide them should maybe redirect students before they register and warn them of the scarcity of jobs in that field afterward? If that can deter some students and redirect them into more "job abundant" fields then employment rates could grow.

One way or another the problem is there and has to be solved. Pharmacy (pharmacists) in South Africa is an example of one of those scarce skilled fields. However, we all know nothing is ever simple in practice as it is in theory!

Have you experienced this problem? How would you solve this problem?

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