Essentially, it ended the company run training programs because the employer could no longer choose those who it would put into their programs. he Wiki article does not specifically say it, but these training programs were collateral damage. The training was shifted to the colleges and universities so the company didn’t have the legal risk of a discrimination lawsuit in the event a person in the program didn’t pass or have another issue. Specifically regarding Griggs it was the administration of aptitude tests that were declared discriminatory.
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The removal of company certification programs had a very nasty offshoot that is responsible for a lot of the problems mentioned in the article. Namely that the idea of an entry level, private sector job in the US pretty much dead. SeekAndFind’s faux job posting is only slightly unrealistic, any job posting you find requires work experience and it does not always even have to be in your field. Essentially what it boils down to is students MUST do some sort of internship or co-op in order to even be considered for any job anywhere.
Part of this requirement is from the removal of company training programs and the other from how itinerant workers have become. Spending 6 months training someone on the job rather then 1 month doing it in a classroom makes it expensive to train a fresh from college worker to any degree of usefulness, an endeavor made less attractive when most of your “first job” hires will move on after a year or two, essentially once they are past the two year work experience minimum, in search of greener pastures.
I saw a cartoon job posting recently that went something along the lines of “company looking for a 20 something. Great pay, great benefits, paid vacation, etc. 30 years work experience required.” That a cartoonist can write such a thing in satirical seriousness shows how bad the entry level job market is, which combined with an unwillingness to hire older workers due to health and other costs, explains how the US can have both record number job openings and record number un/underemployed. You know there is a problem when it made more economic sense for my friend to drop out of a masters program then turn down an entry level job offer.