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If you mean being trapped in a job, that's not an issue often because the pay is bad. The company training you risks your leaving too soon but they also pay yo
by _8j50 3y ago
If you mean being trapped in a job, that's not an issue often because the pay is bad. The company training you risks your leaving too soon but they also pay you like $30k at most where a college grad would be 3x that.
In my experience, college educated IT people pretty much have the same if not harsher time to productivity, mostly because you simply can't teach very specific products and most of IT is experiential, what you learn in college is googleable, it's the rest that you can't that has value. The only advantage of a degree in IT is it makes the employee a better long term bet because it would be easier to promote them up the ladder and have them stay longer.
- em-bee 3y agoIf you mean being trapped in a job, that's not an issue often because the pay is bad no i mean the risk for the employer spending money on training and then loosing the employee before they can recoup the investment.
- _8j50 3y agoEvery investment has a risk. Lower the cost by paying less during training and try to get them to stay by allocating as much to promotion an advancement opportunities in the budget as is allocated for new hires and treating them well. I have had jobs where I took 50% less than others (even more) and stayed very long at jobs despite much better paying roles because I was treated ok and the pains of adapting to a new company felt too much. They say losing a job or changing jobs is as impactful as divorce or death in the family emotionally. Another way to look at it is it looks bad on one's resume when you job hop. But also, if training people was the norm, the abundant supply would make it difficult for people to change jobs often.