I get frustrated every time I hear US politicians talk about jobs – they are missing the underlying crisis in our workforce today – lack of qualified candidates. Everywhere I look I hear business leaders talk about the lack of qualified candidates. We are not in a job crisis; we are in a qualified candidate crisis!

Of course, I work in software and technology so the jobs I hear about are skewed in that direction already, but I don’t know one printer who isn’t looking for at least one qualified technical resource. There aren’t enough qualified candidates and when you’re recruiting technical people you (the printer) are competing against every other company in the country that also needs technical people to transform their business.

What does it mean to be technical?