>This model is the existing model for every new graduate who starts a job today. Any new hire in a decent company is going to be getting taught the industry ski

>This model is the existing model for every new graduate who starts a job today. Any new hire in a decent company is going to be getting taught the industry skills from more senior members of the team. Plenty of companies have mentoring programmes. If that's the case, I'd say there's a massive shortage of 'decent' companies. Modern business strategy shuns apprenticeship because that's viewed as additional cost no one wants to pay that ultimately becomes a sunk cost. I'm not saying they're right/wrong, just that's the perspective I see. Every business I interact with wants quick turn around/ROI and any respectable semblance of apprenticeship doesn't fit well in that framing. Even in research where it's assumed you're taking on new problems you've not seen before, the pressure is constant and budgeted/planned on the assumption everyone "hits the ground running." I don't know how any of these environments promote apprenticeship which is slow, costly, and supports practices like long term investments in relationships between employer/employee. On top of that, if you do go into training new hires and your competitors don't but instead hire experienced workers, that puts you at a competitive disadvantage in the near term which may strangle you long before your new hires can help level the playing field. I'm not sure how you reincorporate the concept of apprenticeship back into the current labor market. The big tech companies strategy is to simply start kids earlier by integrating some training materials into k-12 and colleges so tax payers and future employees will eat the training costs. They also get their pick of experienced folks when they want/need them because they can front the costs/expenses. I'm not sure if that's a good thing. Traditionally there's been a balance of sharing the cost between apprentice and mentor. More and more that cost is pushed on the apprentence and who wants to pursue that pathway if so? This seems to especially be a problem in tech over more traditional roles where apprenticeship is expected: medicine, engineering, trades like plumbing/electrician, etc.