Where have all the data entry candidates gone?
If you are struggling to hire data entry roles to help extract data from documents, please take comfort in the fact that you are not alone. Businesses and institutions of all sizes, even the IRS, are challenged by an acute labor shortage: What Happened? The above article was published in April 2022. To better understand the reason for this shortage, you will need to read another article from the same month: With the Great Resignation, there has been a drought of technical talent available for entry level tech positions. To combat this, technology companies have responded by hiring people from lower, minimum wage roles, providing them extensive training and support to perform these entry-level tasks. According to The Wall Street Journal article above, “ many employers from IBM to CVS now say they are happy to help relatively inexperienced new hires get trained up in coding, cybersecurity and healthcare technology to fill positions .” The problem with this approach is it place...