Skills shortage leaves no room for innovation: study

Skills shortage leaves no room for innovation: study : "'Sixty-eight per cent of the firms surveyed said the skills shortages had affected their business over the past year; of those, 60 per cent found it was limiting their ability to be innovative.'"

It's not just a shortage of skills. It's a shortage of people who actually are dependable and who are prepared to get up in the morning, go to work and stay there...and then come back the next day. We have raised a whole heap of kids who have no work ethic, who have not valued education, are oblivious to the fact they are in a country with so much opportunity...because they don't want to be at school and they don't want to work either.We have also raised a number of dynamos who are capable of very great and far reaching achievements at a young age. The indulged expect to be kept. They are the entitled. We haven't forced them to stand on their own two feet and now the older are getting older, the Xers are starting to feel the strain and companies are realising they maybe should have thought before they got sucked into downsizing and offloading workers. There is no sense of loyalty and there is no sense of being there. Well, it just means we have lots of opportunities for people who want to be independent , earn a good living and live in a nice country. Our local supermarkets can't get and keep staff and the guy who was restoring my roof had been through 34 young lads before he got the one who was helping him at my place. 34. The work was straight forward and the wages were fantastic for a young person...even an older person. It is a well paid job and if you don't mind clambering over roofs, you can do quite well for yourself. Same as our super markets. They are helping staff by matching hours with lifestyle and family commitments but still they have people who just plain don't turn up or who are such liabilities because of their temperament. We really need a good shake up and our kids need to know they have to be there ...at school, at their desk and on their own two feet. We are paying the price of not taking action and being too indulgent.