Note to recent college grads and the Class of 2012: You may not be as ready for the working world as you think you are...
Well then get off your lazy duffs and train employees the way you want them. Or you could always use a little of that critical thinking you claim that you value and hire employees based on what you want and forget about the college degrees.
“Well then get off your lazy duffs and train employees the way you want them.”
This is the big lie behind companies saying, “We can’t find people with the right skill sets”.
What they are really saying is that they can’t find someone who can immediately fill the position left behind by some person who quit (or retired) without spending significant money on training.
You see it all the time in the tech world. They aren’t looking for someone with solid basic skills that can be trained in a few weeks/months to be productive. No, they are asking for such specific criteria that almost no on can meet it.
The execs don’t want to invest a nickel in training anyone and the grads think they are God’s gift to the working world. They both have that “It’s all about me” problem.
Nah, they aren’t going to make an effort to “train” anyone. See, they’ve got those 50+ questionnaire (psych tests) they want job applicants to go thru before they’ll even consider: a phone call or an interview. If you don’t answer precisely the way they want you to, then forget any contact at all.