Yes, but my present job is in line with my career goals and my desire to teach. My job offers me relevant experience in my field of study, something that I’ve never had until now. If I want more money, I can always supplement it with my own business.
It can and hopefully will open up more doors for me later on down the line.
What does your job offer? It sounds to me that you are picking up temps and then letting them go when you don’t need them anymore. Are you offering young people a career where they can have actual job security? Or are you offering a paycheck in exchange for work? There’s nothing wrong with that - I’ve had many, many jobs like that.
If you want to get young people to sign up for the job and stick with it you’ll have to offer one of several things.
1. Job security. If there’s a slowdown, am I going to have a job? Or am I going to be the first one dumped out the door. From what I can see, it sounds like the latter.
2. Opportunity for advancement. Does this job open up positions later on? Does it offer relevent work experience that is going to help obtain other positions?
3. Does the position offer a competitive pay structure compared with similar positions?
It seems to me, that you don’t offer one or two - so it comes down to three. Arguing that ‘just because the unemployment rate is X, we should only pay what is necessary to get butts in the seats, gets you exactly what you are getting - you’re getting the folks who can’t get work anywhere else.
And then you’re surprised that the folks you’ve got in your applicant pool aren’t the best and the brightest. This is simple math. You aren’t offering a high enough salary to attract the young people that you do want to work for you, and/or your HR people are simply not doing their jobs in getting those people out to work.
Thanks for the newbie HR tips and motivational poster pabulum, none of which has a thing to do with excessive texting and personal cell phone usage while on the job, let alone absenteeism without informing ones employer while still expecting to have a job.
It wouldn’t be tolerated in a minumum wage position with a fast food joint let alone an entry level position paying twice that. You want to teach? Having difficulty achieving that? Why? Going to supplement that by starting your own business? Really? I’ve started several. Do you have any greenhorn pointers for that, too?