OP-ED: The Key Is Job Creation
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama said the administration was going to focus on creating jobs and getting people back to work. It’s about time. Really. We’ve all known for a painfully long time it will take getting people back to work to kick this recession in the butt. Employed people spend money and spending money grows the economy. I’m not Ben Bernanke and even I figured this out.
The initiatives to create jobs can’t come soon enough. In fact, I’m curious to know what’s going on with the outcomes from the jobs summit that was held last year. You remember the jobs summit? My recall of the event was very few human resources professionals were on the invite list. Such a shame. You’d like to think that any conversation about creating jobs would have HR pros in the room.
I’ve been biting my tongue about this for quite some time. I have my own theory on why human resources wasn’t at the jobs summit. It’s because HR pros aren’t focused on job “creation”. Instead they’re focused on job “readiness”.
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