[thayne]

There is a solution for that. Hire unskilled, or underqualified employees and train them. But that costs money and takes time so of course companies don't want to do that. Then there is the fear that the employee will leave and work for a competitor after you train them. The solution to that is to treat them well enough they don't want to leave. But again, that cost money.

[voisin]

Train people on the job? No no, much better to market to youngsters how much demand there is in a field and how easy it will be to get a job so they spend multiple years in school training for it theoretically, only to find upon graduation that things have changed and the industry no longer needs them. /s

In reality, on the job training has largely disappeared in the last few decades outside a handful of trades. Business has pushed the risk and costs of training to labour and the costs have subsequently skyrocketed despite lower expected return.

[thayne]

Absolutely. And then businesses complain because the external training doesn't do a good enough job preparing prospective employees for their specific needs. Go figure.