Michael Dell: We’re hiring, but show me your skills
Michael Dell says — in no uncertain terms — that his company, which shed thousands of jobs over the past few years, is hiring. There’s only one problem: it can’t find enough qualified people.
“I’m amazed at this,” he said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday at the company’s Round Rock, Texas headquarters. Dell employs around 100,000 people.
“We go in our meetings and we need more of these, and more of these people –hiring, hiring, hiring. And then you look at 9.7 percent unemployment and you say: ‘whats going on here?’ The people and skills we’re looking for, they’re not there. And so, the educational institutions need to do a better job creating these new skills.”
Dell’s solution? It has so-called “universities” it uses to train its own workforce. But the company is still short of skilled workers.
Dell, one of the world’s richest men, founded his namesake company in the 1980s while still in college. In 1992, at age of 27, Dell became the youngest CEO of a company in the Fortune 500.
He said the company’s torrid growth in the early days saw huge amounts of hiring of skilled workers.
“How did Dell grow 80 percent per year for the first eight years and 60 percent a year for the six years after that. No acquisitions. We hired and trained a lot of people. So we know how to do that. There aren’t enough of them out there. I just find it fascinating that you have this high unemployment yet we’re hiring and we’re not finding them.”
Google layoffs don’t stop hiring efforts
Google may be giving pink slips to some 200 hapless souls, but that’s not stopping the company from hiring in certain places.
The search giant has about 360 job openings listed on its Web site, and a spokesman has confirmed that they are indeed open positions. Only about 30 of the US job openings are for work that appears related to sales and marketing – the kinds of jobs that were impacted by Thursday’s layoffs.
The job openings provide a fascinating window into the inner workings of the vast Google empire, which has a need for everything from a software engineer in Krakow to an account manager in Cairo.
A job listing for a “Peering Coordinator” at Google’s EU headquarters begins with a hint of international intrigue:
“When we’re not planning and designing our next secret data centre, we focus on selecting, negotiating for and acquiring the space, power and networks to expand Google’s global reach,” the ad reads.
Other roles are more pedestrian. A sought-after Transportation Program Manager in Mountain View, California will be tasked with, among other things, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the bike program.
And of course, given that the Google army famously marches on its belly, it’s no surprise that the company wants a Foodservices Supply Chain Manager to report for duty at the Googleplex.
With all googles money they get rid of a bunch of hard working people and then hire more why not shift these people who they are getting rid of and train them in on different jobs?
It’s all good and well to push positive PR for the world Michael, how about treating your current employees fairly?
What about better pay, to catch up with the industry rates + inflation?
And can we have our benefits back? Stock Participation Plan for one.