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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry but it sounds like his skills either aren't there, aren't unique, or  aren't transferrable.

The problem with a lot of these USAID folks is there's a lot of talk about deliverables and managing programs but it's a lot of words. [/quote]

No, the problem is that the job market is terrible and the government has poured gasoline on it by dumping 300k extra workers into it all at once. Very few industries or sectors have added any meaningful number of jobs in the past year other than healthcare.

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If healthcare added all these job why aren't the people who prevent infectious diseases in Africa or stopped ebola working in that field.

It sounds like the government propped up the 300k extra workers and they don't really have marketable skills. [/quote]

Because the jobs in healthcare are in the provision of healthcare services (doctors, NPs, nurses, hospital and office administrative staff), not in public health (got cut!) or infectious diseases.

It sounds like you have no idea what you’re talking about, which is unsurprising.[/quote]

That makes no sense. Doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners work in public health and infectious diseases.

Just face it. Usaid people were not in healthcare. They were paper pushers. [/quote]

That’s like saying that only carpenters work in construction. Sure, the people swinging hammers are critical. But you also need architects, engineers, and inspectors. Public health is essentially the engineers and inspectors of the health care world. It isn’t a nurse who is taking waste water samples to check for pathogens, or a doctor who is developing models for how a disease will move through a population and how to deploy resources to stop it. Surgeons don’t do home visits to make sure sick old people have food in their fridge and pills in their medicine boxes so they don’t end up back in the hospital.

I don’t know if you just want to hate on everything Trump hates on, or if you really don’t know what public health is. So I’m explaining in the hope you are in earnest. Because, bleeding heart that I am, I like to assume the best of people.[/quote]

Again, if usaid people could do these other things they would.

Architects, engineers, and inspectors are working. They aren't wondering why they haven't had an interview in a year. [/quote]

Plenty of people in computer science and IT are wondering exactly that. Is it because they don’t have skills? No, it’s because the macro environment of their industry is awful. The job market is not strong and is not adding jobs except in a few select areas (construction is actually one that hasn’t shed jobs in the past year, actually), but this very simple concept is lost on you. No one is surprised.[/quote]

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