Might be better to train new employees instead of hoping they show up with all the skills they need.
“Might be better to train new employees ....”
I remember back in my youth, that is pretty much how it worked, for generations prior.
When the college degree became the new high school diploma, things changed, for the worse.
Back in my HR days (pre-feminization), the typical response to a suggestion to train employees is that if the company did, then the employees would jump ship to the competition for $1.00 an hour more.
My question in response to that, which was never answered by anything other than executive silence, was “then why are we not paying to retain qualified employees?”.
It's worked for thousands of years.
And you dont need a damned union for it.
“Might be better to train new employees instead of hoping they show up with all the skills they need.”
When I was a young punk ass know it all engineer, when I started at my company, I was put to work for a few weeks at a time as a line operator in every main area of the plant. Then I was put to work with our machinists and the electricians and maintenance. The machinists and electricians- were critical to the operation especially since this was a manufacturing facility deep in the desert, literally 100 miles from the nearest town so you couldn’t simply call contractors and most everything was fabricated and built in house. I did these jobs for 6 months before I started to do any engineering, and it quickly wiped the smug know it all attitude right off my face as I learned how much staggering amount of information that I did not know.
Exactly right, because in most jobs, employees won’t have the necessary skills based solely on a degree and will need to be taught the specifics of a given job.
“Might be better to train new employees instead of hoping they show up with all the skills they need.”
A friend of ours was hired to work for a top level home building construction company. The person doing the hiring insisted that the applicants have absolutely zero construction background, so they could be trained the right way. Now the guy owns his own franchise and is very successful.