New grads say employers set the bar too high for entry-level roles: 'No job is willing to give you that first experience'
New grads say employers set the bar too high for entry-level roles: 'No job is willing to give you that first experience'
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5 years of experience for an "entry level" position is bullshit these assholes have been doing for decades: Sometimes it's literally just bald faced H1B visa fraud and nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
Entry level jobs aren't going to exist in the very near future.
And then eventually they'll run out of mid or top tier candidates because they all died or retired... corporations proverbially clear cut their forests and never replanted. Enjoy your grasslands I guess...
This is why internships and coop jobs are so important. Also using networking to come in the side door. I also think that entry level jobs say 5 years experience often.
You mean nepotism and not hiring based on actual skill and merit?
To get your resume in the hiring managers stack and by pass inane HR filtering.
Why hire you when we get better performance from an AI we don't have to pay a salary and health insurance? Don't forget to buy our products! -C-suite
Also, nobody wants to work anymore...
That's why I decided to give up and not go back to college. What's the point?
Education is useful in the workforce if it's targeted. Traditionally a college education for most people doesn't pay out for up to 10-15 years post-graduation.
Honestly unless somebody is paying your way through, for many fields it's better working for a few years then going back to school in your late 20's. Then you can get a degree in the field that you are actually working in.
"Entry level" jobs have been "Degree + 2-3 years experience" since I graduated college and it's only gotten worse in the past 25 years.
For the 10 years post graduation I made less money than I did driving trucks during college
part of me feels lucky that i graduated when i did since there was a big enough labor shortage during the dotcom bubble burst years to give me a chance despite not even having a degree in the field.
the graduates i work with today are so much more capable than i was at their age, yet have so little prospects; i feel sorry for them and i'm SO GLAD i didn't bring another person into this world to experience this misery.
I'm telling my kid not to go, it's a fucking debt slavery scheme
Why aren't grads syndicalizing‽ 🖕 monopsonies. get together and outcompete them.
Like honestly what are you supposed to do? Those I know are either going total striver and molding themselves to the every whim of a fake ass financialized economy, or giving up. Schemes and scams, etc. College degrees are less of an education than a very expensive job certification telling your HR email job “I am not stupid,” sold to you by a giant real estate company that also hires professors.
It’s not even a question of upward mobility but where you’re supposed to find employment that pays non starvation wages and won’t be squeezed out once you learn it. Niche trades maybe? But what’s the opportunity for advancement there.
Cengage can eat dick