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There are jobs to be had, but you keep getting rejected. Are employers expectations unrealistic or are university grads really ill-equipped for the real world?
by rtl49 11y ago
There are jobs to be had, but you keep getting rejected. Are employers expectations unrealistic or are university grads really ill-equipped for the real world?
Not unlike many BBC articles, this one begins with a question presenting a false dichotomy. Why are you being rejected? Perhaps there are simply more people seeking work than there are jobs, and that however "well prepared" you are, the probability of being chosen for any particular job is therefore lower.
Perhaps it's a mixed blessing that our generation has faced such sobering difficulty in finding stable and meaningful employment. At some point as a result, our society might be prepared to recognize that the freer a market is, the less it guarantees a satisfactory way of life for its participants.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoPeople aren't really hiring. They're going through Kabuki theater of the process. It might be as simple as this reinforces the ego of the hiring team. in a company there might be two narratives - we're all WORKING SO HARD ( you're probably not, really ) and WE CAN'T FIND ANY HELP ( because we're too special.) This being said, I make a good living cleaning up after mishires/onboarding failures. They economy is divided into Big Player high profile firms and firms milking some old cash cow into a middling slow Schumpeterian/thermodynamic death.
- rtl49 11y agoI'm not sure I entirely agree. Having been on the "other side" I can say with confidence that at least some employers truly dislike the hiring process and would be eager to hire the first candidate who shows signs of competence. Unfortunately, at least in the tech sector, competence can be more difficult to ascertain than in other industries. Even lengthy resumes often come affixed to very incompetent candidates. I suppose one could subject them to the indignity of an actual "coding test," but the whole process of finding a test that accurately reflects competence is itself quite difficult. The result is that we've ended up doing "trial runs" with contractors with the promise of full employment after some time, many of whom clearly demonstrate a real lack of preparedness after the first two weeks at the cost of a few thousand dollars.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoI believe you completely. Seriously. I think you're actually describing the other side of the same coin. If somebody has experience at one of these failing companies, they may not have gotten much of a shot at actually doing anything. I shudder to think how anyone could clearly demonstrate a real lack of preparedness in two weeks. Again, I totally believe you but that's just incredible. It's like we all live on asteroids that are drifting father and farther from each other.