Wharton’s Peter Cappelli knows why you can’t get a job

Three years after the recession’s “official” end in June 2009, about 12 million people remain unemployed, with more than three jobless people for every opening, the U.S. Labor Department reports.

So why do employers constantly whine about their inability to find the talent they need from an applicant pool that they say lacks skills, rudimentary educational abilities, and even a willingness to work?

Sitting in his office at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli asked himself the same question. Cappelli isn’t buying all the moaning, widely reported in business media.

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