by makerdiety on 12/15/24, 6:46 PM with 5 comments
by orf on 12/15/24, 9:25 PM
> Another 25 per cent even brought their parents to interviews
So this is obviously completely trash data and all conclusions drawn from it are suspect, or the article is written by an idiot.
How does “1/4 interviewees brought their parents to interviews” pass the smell test?
It must mean assistance with travel, but regardless of the fault lying with the author or the data, it doesn’t bode well for the conclusions.
by eesmith on 12/15/24, 7:31 PM
ROFL! Students did all the things companies said were the right things to get hired, and now the companies are complaining about the result. And they want to blame the students?
The last 40 years companies have said that they need more college-educated people - that is, young adults need go into massive debt to train themselves for a career, rather than having the company pay for on-the-job training.
So they did that, which means out-competing all the other students who want to get into the upper-level schools which companies want to hire from.
Of course that means they don't have job experience. If companies want people with job experience, they need to pay real wages for internships and apprentices.
> Around six in ten companies included in the survey reported firing a recent university graduate they hired this year.
Did I read that right that if they hired 100 people and fired one, that would be included in this statistic.
> also reported that some of their Gen Z workers struggled to manage their workload, were frequently late, and did not dress or speak appropriately
Umm, they made the same comments about Gen X workers.
by exabrial on 12/16/24, 2:43 AM
All of the issues we’ve seen in the article, painfully.
The other one not mentioned is the assumption they have the same privileges as someone that has ‘put in the time’ and ‘everything has to be fair’. In general the concepts of sweat equity/rank are foreign, and many overestimate their usefulness to the org relative to their demands; without so much first mastering basic skills like writing, verbal communication, receiving critical feedback, or even punctuality.
It’s unproductive to rip on another generation. So as an experiment, we’re putting a few through a *8th grade level* English crash course, followed by a technical writing class. Our take is that millennials weren’t wholly prepared either, and the previous generations had the mindfulness to give us a hand.
by Havoc on 12/16/24, 2:18 AM
Had one interviewee that was entirely focused on the DEI committee. No real interest in the role. Also, tiny company so there is no freakin DEI committee. Didn’t get hired.