The mismatch of training to job category openings is as much a mismatch of college to market needs as it is the corporate trend to cut corners as well. Yes, no argument that colleges are out of sync with job markets. Parents send their kids to school on the blind hope they will have something useful in a skillset when done and the job will take care of itself. I learned that myth was an illusion when I graduated in 1992 and couldn't find a job to live on. Had to work two jobs, go back to school to get what I really needed in skills and then found my real career 5 painful years later.

But society isn't the only culprit. Companies offshored manufacturing hardcore in the 1990s, wiping out the traditional factory career that bought families their boomer homes, boats and cars three decades prior. The "service economy" was all about brainwork, while real production was shipped across the border to Mexico or over the Pacific to Asia. Now, thanks to new pressures like too much service worker supply, AI wiping out service jobs, and broadband Internet making it easier to hire service workers for cheaper in other countries round the clock, companies contributed directly to the current job market as well. Blaming schools alone is hiding who actually is responsible for doing the hiring and why they don't hire Americans more.

Now, the big looming concern is the need for more skilled workers. Good luck. It takes 5 years to be an electrician. 10-15 years for medical licensed training. And an easy 4 years with 5 certification no rookie will ever have before their first job for technician candidacy in tech. The US created its own trap and shortages, and much of it is due to pressure the need for offshore hiring again that is already trained and ready to step in the gap. There's no actual intent to open the doors for Americans to new jobs here, and Americans should be pissed enough to do something about that with the very companies that do the hiring.

It's really simple - if they don't hire at home, don't spend money on them.