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A lot of people forget that hunting for a job is an attempt for 2 entities to fulfill needs. The employee wants money and (probably) a job they can care about.
by wccrawford 15y ago
A lot of people forget that hunting for a job is an attempt for 2 entities to fulfill needs. The employee wants money and (probably) a job they can care about. The employer wants some specific work done, probably in a specific way.
Working-while-in-college jobs do not prepare us for job interviews properly because shotgun resumes work perfectly fine there. The company only cares that there is a human doing the work (which any human can do) and the employee only cares that they get a paycheck.
When they move on, the employee is doubly unprepared. They don't understand that an interview is 2-sided, and they don't have any experience dealing with the situation, whereas the company does have both those things.
- Swizec 15y agoI'm guessing this tends to depend a lot on the kind of working-while-in-college jobs you do. A lot of comp sci majors work on their exact field of work while in college. This gives them some pretty hefty experience points by the time they look for a "real" job.