CNNMoney.com, “Boomerang kids: 85% of college grads move home“:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Getting a degree used to be a stepping stone to limitless career opportunities. Now it’s more of a hiatus from living under your parents’ roof.

Stubbornly high unemployment — nearly 15% for those ages 20-24 — has made finding a job nearly impossible. And without a job, there’s nowhere for these young adults to go but back to their old bedrooms, curfews and chore charts. Meet the boomerangers.

One cause for this failure to launch could be educations and expectations that have become divorced from the working world, that is, reality.

Math skills would help, too.

Danville (Conn.) Commercial News,  “Local manufacturer needs workers,” reporting on the demand for employees at Thyssen-Krupp Crankshaft.

Forge team, tool room, and crane/store room positions are available in the Danville Forge area and forge team and die shop positions are available at the Veedersburg Forge division.

In the Danville machining category, HVAC, manufacturing engineering, fabrication, preventative maintenance and electronics technicians and around 20 machine operators.

[Erik] Jensen said the machine operator positions are quite specialized, with the ideal candidate having experience around industrial machinery and equipment and cutting metal.

“These positions are technical in nature and require a decent number of math skills and using measurements,” Jensen said.

From the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, “FABTECH 2010 Discussion Topic: Filling the Skilled Labor Gap“: (continue reading…)