“However, companies have an equal responsibility to prepare recent graduates for their particular workplace and give them the best chance to succeed.”
Every time I was hired, I was expected to hit the ground running as much as possible, with my employer providing only basic company-specific training. Now employers are expecting to provide a full education to their new delicate doilies?
“Instead of teaching new hires what they want from them, employers are simply firing workers for not being prepared.”
It’s called, “the real world” / “life”.
“instead of putting the blame on G Z-ers, one expert told Newsweek whose fault it may really be.”
No; it’s the Gen Z-ers’ fault, blame to be partially shared by their loser parents.
I suspect it’s more than the work to be done. Unspoken is the appearance and manner of these new Gen Z employees. Gaudy tats everywhere, piercings in ungodly places, and purple hair don’t generally fly well in corporate environments. They are probably also subtle activists for leftist causes at work.
With the Internet now, people need to start learning how to self-educate. So many great resources out there.
The only thing I had growing up that could compare was the Encyclopedia Britannica.
I maintain that this whole issue started with “PARTICIPATION TROPHIES”.
Handing out rewards for just ‘showing up’.
This is the result.
Merit was ignored & never taught
While whose fault it is is relevant in the overall discussion, it’s completely irrelevant to the employer. They need competent and capable employees. If they are not that don’t hire them or get rid of them. It’s not the employers’ responsibility to fix someone else’s mistakes
40 years ago, when I started, my employer had to provide weeks & weeks of training. No way around this, since the training was product specific.
👍 100%
I’d place at least some of the blame on the legal system. The employer has the burden of proof for a skills test (Griggs vs. Duke Power).
In most of my job interviews (I was STEM), the questions I got were mostly personality and work experience, and very few if any education questions. Since I didn’t have the work experience and not much personality, I flunked a lot of interviews.
I served on a hiring team some years ago — Personnel doesn’t like it if you try to ask technical questions they don’t understand.