Offshoring. There's no way Corporate America is going to do as you say, as long as offshoring at a fraction of the cost is an option.
The fact is this: most of these college kids coming into the work force ARE NOT prepared to WORK for what they're being offered. They demand high salaries with ZERO work experience. Most of them don't know how to interview, they can't handle face to face communications due to the impersonal way in which they're used to communicating via constant texting.
I actually interviewed a 24 year old college graduate who's mommy was waiting for him out in the parking lot. (I could barely contain myself from laughing when he told me such.) I'm betting mommy dressed him for the interview too.
I've seen these kids coming out of college getting worse and worse at interviewing, and their work ethic getting less and less since 1995 when I became a hiring manager. This isn't a new phenomenon. And it's not just me saying these kids don't know how to interview, three local TV stations ran "series" on how parents could help prep their college graduate children to learn to interview for a job.
If I didn't know it to be true, I'd have called all three tv stations "series" complete bullshit.
Your experience is consonant with what I’ve observed.
The type of parent that waits for their 24+ year old kid in the parking lot is called a “helicopter parent” - because they’re constantly hovering over their little precious darlings.
I’ve heard of instances where Junior was turned down by an employer and the *hiring manager* gets an irate phone call from Mommy. My only response was “WTF?! If the kid ever wanted a second chance, he sure doesn’t have one now!”