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> A common problem is that the use of staffing firms - recruiters - has led to the common requirement that new hires "hit the ground running" because employers
by S4M 11y ago
> A common problem is that the use of staffing firms - recruiters - has led to the common requirement that new hires "hit the ground running" because employers don't want to train someone after paying a recruiter $30,000.00 to find them.
It's also due to the fact that people tend to stay less time at their jobs. Companies don't want to wait 3 months for the new hires to pick up their tech stacks if they are going to leave after 2 years. Why people are less loyal is another story, and I am not sure the employees are the ones who are the most guilty there.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agohere we have a chicken and egg problem. It's not that people tend to stay less in general, but that I personally regard the entire industry as fundamentally corrupt, so I don't really feel the need to stay at any particular company any longer than I really have to to fulfill my own personal requirement. However among my personal requirements is that despite being quite shy and quiet I enjoy the company of others. That's why when I am self-employed - as I am now - I commonly work at wifi spots rather than from home. Working Software of Santa Cruz, California paid me less than half of what I could readily have commanded anywhere else but even so I stayed with them longer than any other employer because those people were like family to me.