They want job ready - but not too much experience.
No wonder they can’t find people to fill their jobs, they’re looking for unicorns.
That is pretty much an unreasonable expectation. Entry level implies that the employee is ready to go to work and LEARN the job and its requirements, not be proficient from day one. This excuse makes it easier for them to exclude American college grads and to justify hiring H1Bs with some level of experience into entry level positions.
Pure BS. It is easier to hire guest workers or illegal aliens who get lower pay and can be controlled easier by the companies. They couldn't do that unless we had a surplus of labor--and we do.
Employers are taking advantage of the situation, to pay entry-level salaries to experienced people.
Improve job opportunities and this will go away.
Entry work is the easiest stuff to offshore. Even lawyer firms are offshoring the grunt work newly hired associates used to do.
Paid internships during the summer instead of a vacation or waiting tables are a good way to create experienced workers.
For a entry level job running a cash register, a person must know how to count change. Today’s kids coming out of HS can’t even do that.
They totally rely on the cash register to tell them, and if you throw in the odd cents to round up, at the last moment, they have no clue what to do. Today’s kids can’t even read cursive in many states. And I’m tired of having to print out crap for them it is more painful to my arthritic hands than cursive is.
Far too many high school and college graduates are not ready for an entry level job. Requirements: Show up on time for the interview and for every single day of work, actually work at work rather than play Facebook/twitter/CandyCrush/PornSurf, deliver more in value than your employer is paying for your labor, treat customers and co-workers politely and professionally. A disappointing number of our youth think that each of those requirements is unreasonable.
Why not ask what colleges are putting out? A new engineer will have little trouble finding a job. Did they ask any of these poor darlings if they were willing to move?
My stupid boss is always complaining about applicants who don’t have experience (just graduated from college).......I just roll my eyes because he is so idiotic to realize that you can’t have experience if you don’t get hired. He is such an idiot. Oh well. I guess I should be appreciative of the job I have. Although some days. Today I am on a sick day because I have a 1 o’clock medical appointment. So I am have a 1/2 days hookie day.
Employers have drunk the Kool-Aid put out by the education establishment that employees will pop out of universities fully trained and ready, with no need to invest a penny in their training.
So the immediate questions I would have are how well does the 23-year-old know the customer, how well can they help the customer solve their problems, how much customer service can they deliver, and how much are they being paid as compared to the 40-year-old? I suspect the answers are not much, not much, not much, and nowhere near as much. And the answer to question number four is why the 23-year-old has the account and the 40-year-old is sitting at home cruising Monster.com, having been laid off last year.