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> I changed my business recently to a situation where I deal with alot of millenial aged college graduates. Are you talking about fresh college graduates? Or a
by slightwinder 7y ago
> I changed my business recently to a situation where I deal with alot of millenial aged college graduates.
Are you talking about fresh college graduates? Or actual millenials which are now a decade later encountered with you? In later case, what kind of business do you have to specifically encounter this age-group?
> Things like copying files from a thumbdrive to a computer, filling out a spreadsheet, adding a header or footer to a document - sometimes it is quite shocking.
You don't learn them from typical private daily activity, you easly forget them when not regulary trainend.
> I graduated from High School in 1994 and had some computer classes leading up to that. I learned how to type a letter in wordperfect. I learned how to save it to my floppy disk. I learned how to use a spreadsheet to make a budget.
I graduated some years later than you and had those lections and several more office-stuff even after school. But I could still not do it beyond the most basic level without googleing it. If you don't refresh those lections regulary you forget the details quite fast.
Every now and then I do some more complex formulars in excel, and still need to figures for some minutes how the most basic referencing work or which formular I'm supposed to use. And I'm a software-developer, doing more complex things everyday.
Random complexity is a hindrace for everyone.