Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for growth that include investing in their own skills-training efforts to enable a broader pool of applicants.

As the pool of highly qualified candidates shrinks, employers are striving to make themselves more attractive to candidates. Strategies include expanding benefits, addressing the work/life balance issue and increasing salaries to attract and retain top talent.

We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And we have workers who lack the requisite skills to access these good-paying jobs in high growth industries.

I'm not looking for 'new' investment ideas. I want the OLD ideas, the ones that have built wealth for families for generations.

We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that kill jobs by raising the cost of payrolls need to be eliminated.

There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.