Posted on 02/11/2014 12:14:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A class that teaches you how to eat or even the basic social skills to get a job – is it really necessary?
Some companies think so, particularly for the generation of twenty-somethings and younger dubbed millennials.
While they are undoubtedly social-media savvy, living their lives online in 140 characters or fewer, many of the younger potential workers lack very basic skills because of it, according to some employers.
“Writing skills -- people don’t write as much as they used to. They’re texting, so they forget to write in complete sentences and articulate their written skills professionally,” said Jeff Dunn, an Intel campus relations manager.
Even if a cover letter scores the millennial an interview, many still flunk their face-to-face meetings because they aren’t being professional, according to the HR Policy Association.
According to many hiring managers, a small number of millennials during an interview use slang or overly casual language, respond to a text message, pick up a phone call, or even have their parents or pets accompany them.
“Everything about you shows. If your email address is screwloose dot com or tequilagirl, that shows (you’re) unprofessional,” said Gina Snyder, a business etiquette trainer.
The need for professionalism at all times is why Sacramento State students attended an event at the college recently, to learn proper dining etiquette from Snyder.
“What should I order? What knife should I use? Where do my solids go? Where do my liquids go? That’s something I’m interested in learning,” student Melissa Aguirre said.
Employers are also calling the attitudes of younger people alarming.
In a recent annual survey by the Center for Professional Excellence, many of the 400 human resources executives surveyed said young employees often appear arrogant in interviews and appear at the office with a sense of entitlement.
“Recruiters want to know: Are you ready to cross the line? Are you ready to cross the line to become a professional, to step into my company?” Snyder said.
More than half the employers surveyed also said millennials are spending too much time on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Welders are still in short supply here.
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Where is ‘here’? ....My grandson went to a trade school and earned 8 certifications in welding. Hard for him to get a good job here in the DFW area. ....Seriously, I’d like you to contact me via FReepMail at least and let me know where the welding jobs are.
I’m willing to bet a lot of them came from broken families where the father wasn’t around to teach them not to act like buffoons.
There are a LOT of millennials who could use good old fashioned discipline, and I say that as one of them.
And if it seems like I’m looking down on people who came from broken families or mocking them, that is NOT the case. I came from one such household myself.
Fortunately, I had enough good sense to keep myself off the wrong path.
While the example given was admittedly a parody, one does not need to look very long in the various jobs boards to find real-world examples which are just as preposterous as the parody.
I have found plenty of "Millennials" who are dependable, conscientious, and hard-working. Most of them have two jobs and some are running very small businesses. They are not making much money.
YMMV, of course. I think the image of "Millenial slackers" is overdone.
More than 20 years ago my husband would come home complaining that the people he worked with (college grads) could not write a decent sentence in English. These would have been Boomers. It is epidemic now, but originally was caused by the decline of literacy in the U.S. more than half a century ago.
When you study the history of how reading was taught you find that in the 40s the reading programs began dropping phonics, and by the 50s they were dominated by the kind of “See Spot, look, look,” mediocre curriculum that basically ruined our educational output. Now we have a hard core of 40% that can’t read, another 40% that don’t like to read, and the top 20% to carry the load of the information society.
An important issue missing is DRUG USE.
At Honda, a group of about 24 applicants had completed the initial application/interview process. The final step was the drug test. The HS administrator said, ‘If you cannot pass a drug screening, you should leave now.’
Only TWO were left.
Never care more about someone’s problems than they do.
As I said in the post: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
I’m pretty sure you have to be certified in welding so I doubt anyone is hiring untrained ones. They may be hiring them to see if they can pass certification....at the employees expense.
My wife worked in a textile mill. 90% of applicants flunked the drug test KNOWING they would take the test.
Every generation claims the younger generations are worthless. My dad’s sure did.
I work with kids just out of school. They aren’t lazy, they are learning. Most of them are very talented. They work here because they want to stay in the same town where they went to college while they beef their resume. They’ll go from $30k to $100k in 3 years. It’s the nature of the business.
I’ve never had an issue with communication with them but this is a building full of functioning autistics. We speak a different language anyway.
We taught them the Bible, we taught them manners, how to enunciate your words, made them answer the phone when they were little, "Woodward residence, this is John". Gave them chores starting at 2, then moved them to a farm when the oldest was 13 and "finished them out" in a small rural town with a great farm work ethic, involved in 4H, FFA and sports.
No big deal, you just can't be a lazy parent, that's all it takes and parenting never stops!
When he gave them notice, they begged him not to quit as they would arrange a transfer to the Best Buy nearest his new college.
I asked him what made him so special to get that kind of offer. He just shrugged his shoulders and told me "All I do is show up for work when I am supposed to and do the best job I can when I'm there!"
In my youth, that was considered normal. Today, it is evidently spectacularly rare.
When my son said he was going to have to quit Burlington Coat Factory because he was scheduled to work 30 hours during his final exam week, they immediately rescheduled him. Anything to keep him from quitting!
There are major heavy industries in Milwaukee that desperately need welder such that training and cert is just a business expense ... they are desperate, particularly so if the iron mine up north gets final approval ... welders for construction will be a premium ... also ordinary plant workers will start at $60K.
Looking at the bright side, such morons will starve in their momma's basement or drop like flies once the bread and circuses inevitably dry up.
It'll be a quick cleansing since most of them have no fighting ability, no survival skills and have never fired a gun in their lives.
I think the “boys in da hood” would be a far bigger danger but luckily there aren't that many here in the USA.
Good advice. I totally quit worrying or even seeing them. People have to want to do something. Until then, no one can do anything.
My old man was in three wars, and; he never put down us kids or any so called 1945-50 boomer. He damn sure was down on my sisters kids.
Yes but some of these outfits aren’t exactly legit. I know several people who bought into the welding job bit only to find they had to pay to get certified and then hope they got work. The firm hires a ton of people but only pays them when they work. They cherry pick the best welders and let the rest sit.
They also had to provide their own equipment.
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