A Facebook Post touting “Not Everyone Is A Doctor or Lawyer” prompts me to ask U.S. business leaders and families for their opinion about how well the U.S. education system works to provide the education and training necessary to provide workers ready to join and succeed in the current and future economy and the workers businesses need.  How do you thing our education system is doing?  What are your thoughts on what steps you believe US needs to take to better prepare our young people and train or retrain our underemployed adults to gain self-supporting employment and meet the needs of business?

DFW and many other US communities are struggling to find enough skilled tradespeople, programmers, call center workers and other key positions. While businesses continue to insist that shortage of suitably skilled and trained workers in these and other key positions make the continued availability of foreign workers essential and create other challenges,  many college-educated U.S. workers remain unemployed or underemployed.  Meanwhile, the U.S. education system continues to focus on churning out an unending stream of one-size-fits-all, college bound, lemming not leader graduates, too many of which struggle to find employment at a pay rate that justifies the cost of their college degrees in the new marketplace.

While the importation of foreign workers often helps to ease some of the operational challenges that arise from a scarcity of qualified workers, the importation of foreign labor in lieu of developing qualified workers residing in the U.S. leaves U.S. businesses burdened by the tax burdens of supporting the public relief and other supports imposed by government to provide unemployment and other relief for the surplus of unqualified U.S. workers left under or unemployed.

The US, its businesses, families and communities need and deserve better to produce and maintain a sustainable economy that provides meaningful earning opportunities for our citizens and residents.  To accomplish this, U.S. business leaders need to take the lead in helping to define the skills and abilities their businesses need today and will need in the future, and helping to reshape the education and training systems to better produce U.S. workers  qualified to fill the needs of businesses operating in the U.S.

Does your business experience challenges finding qualified workers resident in the U.S.?  What types of positions are you having trouble filling?  What skills and qualifications are U.S. candidate lacking?  What changes in training or education are needed to address these challenges?  How would you fix the system?

About The Author 

Cynthia Marcotte Stamer is a practicing attorney board certified in labor and employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and management consultant, author, public policy advocate and lecturer widely known for management advice, coaching, teachings, publications, policy advocacy and other leadership.

Recognized as a Martindale-Hubble “AV-Preeminent” (Top 1%) and “Top Rated Lawyer” with special recognition LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® as “LEGAL LEADER™ Texas Top Rated Lawyer” in Health Care Law and Labor and Employment Law; as among the “Best Lawyers In Dallas” for her work in the fields of “Labor & Employment,” “Tax: Erisa & Employee Benefits,” “Health Care” and “Business and Commercial Law” by D Magazine, Ms. Stamer works with businesses and their management, employee benefit plans, governments and other organizations deal with all aspects of business operations, leadership and governance, human resources and workforce, internal controls and regulatory compliance, change management and other performance and operations management and compliance. Her day-to-day work encompasses both general corporate and business legal, contractual, and operational issues, as well their labor and employment, independent contractor, outsourcing, employee leasing, management services and other nontraditional service relationships and other workforce, employee benefits, compensation, contracting, performance management and related issues.

Ms. Stamer supports her clients both on a real-time, “on demand” basis and with longer term basis to deal with general corporate, business, contracting and other business; as well as all aspects of human resources and workforce management, including, recruitment, hiring, firing, compensation and benefits, promotion, discipline, compliance, trade secret and confidentiality, noncompetition, privacy and data security, safety, daily performance and operations management, emerging crises, strategic planning, process improvement and change management, investigations, defending litigation, audits, investigations or other enforcement challenges, government affairs and public policy.

Well-known for her extensive work with health, insurance, financial services, technology, energy, manufacturing, retail, hospitality and governmental employers, her nearly 30 years’ of experience encompasses domestic and international businesses of all types and sizes.

A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, Ms. Stamer also shares her thought leadership, experience and advocacy on these and other concerns by her service in the leadership of a broad range of other professional and civic organization including her involvement as the Vice Chair of the North Texas Healthcare Compliance Association; Executive Director of the Coalition on Responsible Health Policy and its PROJECT COPE: Coalition on Patient Empowerment; former Board President of the early childhood development intervention agency, The Richardson Development Center for Children; former Gulf Coast TEGE Council Exempt Organization Coordinator; a founding Board Member and past President of the Alliance for Healthcare Excellence; former board member and Vice President of the Managed Care Association; past Board Member and Board Compliance Committee Chair for the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas; a member and advisor to the National Physicians’ Council for Healthcare Policy; current Vice Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section Employee Benefits Committee; current Vice Chair of Policy for the Life Sciences Committee of the ABA International Section; Past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Section; a current Defined Contribution Plan Committee Co-Chair, former Group Chair and Co-Chair of the ABA RPTE Section Employee Benefits Group; immediate past RPTE Representative to ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Council Representative and current RPTE Representative to the ABA Health Law Coordinating Council; past Chair of the Dallas Bar Association Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Committee; a former member of the Board of Directors, Treasurer, Member and Continuing Education Chair of the Southwest Benefits Association and others.

Ms. Stamer also is a highly popular lecturer, symposia chair and author, who coaches management, publishes and speaks extensively on leadership, human resources, labor and employment, employee benefits, compensation, occupational safety and health, and other regulatory and operational risk management.  She is the author of thousands of other publications, programs and workshops on these and other concerns for the American Bar Association, ALI-ABA, American Health Lawyers, Society of Human Resources Professionals, the Southwest Benefits Association, the Society of Employee Benefits Administrators, the American Law Institute, Lexis-Nexis, Atlantic Information Services, The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), InsuranceThoughtLeaders.com, Benefits Magazine, Employee Benefit News, Texas CEO Magazine, HealthLeaders, the HCCA, ISSA, HIMSS, Modern Healthcare, Managed Healthcare, Institute of Internal Auditors, Society of CPAs, Business Insurance, Employee Benefits News, World At Work, Benefits Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Business Journal, the Houston Business Journal, and many other symposia and publications. She also has served as an Editorial Advisory Board Member for human resources, employee benefit and other management focused publications of BNA, HR.com, Employee Benefit News, InsuranceThoughtLeadership.com and many other prominent publications and speaks and conducts training for a broad range of professional organizations and for clients on the Advisory Boards of InsuranceThoughtLeadership.com, HR.com, Employee Benefit News, and many other publications.

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