{"id":9595,"date":"2013-04-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/drilling-down-into-the-skills-gap\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T08:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:12:19","slug":"drilling-down-into-the-skills-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/drilling-down-into-the-skills-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilling Down Into the Skills Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stacey Harris, VP of Research, Brandon Hall Group<\/p>\n

The debate over the existence, causes, and extent of a skills gap in the U.S.\u2014and around the world\u2014continues to rage. A barrage of research (see https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/bridging-the-skills-gap\/<\/a>) seems to indicate a growing skills gap, while Peter Capelli, professor of Management and Director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a book last year focused on debunking the premise behind the U.S. skills gap. He asserted that most companies were simply not willing to pay enough or unwilling to give new employees the opportunity to obtain the required skills.<\/p>\n

Boston Consulting Group conducted its own research report in October 2012 and found that less than 8 percent of the market\u2019s highly skilled manufacturing jobs were going unfilled and that the shortages were local, not nationwide, in nature.<\/p>\n

So the finger pointing begins:<\/p>\n