CS jobs in Michigan pay about 2/3's of what is available elsewhere.
Michigan’s “hot jobs” list includes plenty of good-paying careers: logistics, industrial mechanics, medical specialists, software developers.
Alas, “hot jobs” may well be among those workers find the most boring, researchers from Michigan State University found in a new study that exposes large gaps between U.S. job openings and workers’ interests.
For Michigan, the research may offer some insight into how to combat deep and persistent worker shortages.
The research takes a worker-centered glimpse into the “labor market where employers are continually complaining that there aren’t enough people with the right skills to fill the available jobs,” Kevin Hoff, lead researcher on the study and associate professor of industrial psychology at MSU, told Bridge Michigan.
Take art. Nearly two-thirds of workers are attracted to jobs they consider artistic, social or enterprising. Trouble is, they comprise only 2% of openings, Hoff found.
Nearly half of job openings
are in fields many workers consider dull or “conventional,” like information technology and working with data and math, and the “realistic” jobs, where workers are dealing with their hands, tools and machines, such as the skilled trades.
The study, published last week in the Journal of Business and Psychology, is the first to look at labor gaps using career interests instead of skills or knowledge, MSU said.
