Siemens says unemployment partly due to a lack of education

Siemens, a German engineering group, said that despite an unemployment rate of 9% is still difficult for companies to hire workers they need because of the different subject categories in the current redundant. According to Executive Director Eric Spiegel, the problem is with the United States's weakness if proper education and training of workers. "There is a mismatch between the jobs that are available, at least in our portfolio, and the people that we see out there. There is a shortage (of workers with the right skills,) "he told the Financial Times. He added that Siemens now to invest in education and training of personnel, and informed Treasury secretary Tim Geithner that similar investments made by the United States could very possibly help to reduce unemployment.

Mr. Spiegel is not alone in his complaint, many other large companies have expressed a similar problem. According to labor unemployment agency discovered a recent survey that 52% of leading companies in the United States reported struggling to find the persons qualified to act as essential personnel. This difficulty was only 14% of companies in 2010.

According to an article in the CNBC employment has fallen since January 2009, but jobs has increased from 98,000 to 230,000. As Spiegel, other major companies expressing the same complaint. But according to the Administration's consultative advice on jobs and competitiveness, President Obama has heard their cries. What does he? National Association of Manufacturers ' think tank manufacturing Institute runs an expansion of skills for the future of the United States program designed to train workers and help the unemployed with job opportunities that best suit their abilities match specifies.

Ed Crooks of CNBC reported that the "Nobel Prize-winning economist Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was forced to withdraw from this month to seek a seat in the U.S. Federal Reserve Board after the Republican opposition, have argued that it may be worthwhile to invest in more education independent of the general condition of the economy."

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