Companies Are Hiring. Just Not You
Employers can find workers. Qualified workers is another story
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Bill Begal says he has spent almost $2,000 since March on help-wanted ads in newspapers, websites, and state employment services up and down the East Coast to find sales and administrative staff for his Rockville (Md.) disaster cleanup company. “I want people to come out and work for me,” says Begal, 42, whose teams responded to Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005. “Where are they? I just don’t see it.”
Behind the highest jobless numbers in a quarter century is an unexpected twist: Employers such as Begal and Microsoft struggle to fill some positions, as 13.9 million Americans remain without work.