To drive job creation, U.S. businesses, governments and educators should focus on master blueprints, especially after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently revealed that the jobless rate in June remained at 8.2 percent, according to ManpowerGroup.
As the U.S. private sector added 80,000 new jobs in June, May's jobs figure was modified from 69,000 to 77,000, and more than half of June's job growth was created by professional and business services by adding 47,000 jobs with temporary workers making up 25,000 of this sector's increase.
"We remain in a unique long period of unemployment and underemployment during which skills requirements are moving fast," says Jeffrey A. Joerres, ManpowerGroup chairman and CEO. "We still have demand, but employers face heaping amounts of uncertainty that stems from what's happening with Europe, China, Obamacare, the upcoming U.S. general election, etc."
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ManpowerGroup supports job creation blueprints that include the HR Policy Association's U.S. Blueprint for Jobs in the 21st Century and the Business 20 (B20) Task Force on Employment master plan for boosting global employment, which identify public-private sector initiatives for improving skills and directing talent into growing industry sectors.
"Stakeholders in the U.S. economy cannot wait for jobs to be created," Joerres says. "All employers, educators, levels of government and individuals play a critical role in creating jobs. The right blueprint and scalable model initiatives exist. What's needed is for businesses, educators and governments to intricately collaborate in mapping how to sustain the U.S. talent pipeline."
Forty-nine percent of U.S. employers have trouble filling mission-critical positions, including skilled trades, engineering and IT positions, according to ManpowerGroup's 2012 Talent Shortage Survey results. The survey also finds that 56 percent of global respondents say unfilled positions should have little or no impact on key constituents, such as customers and investors. This is up from 36 percent in 2011.
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