77% of new grads believe businesses call for too much experience when hiring for entry-level jobs, shutting them out of an increasingly competitive market.
  • Inucune@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    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…

  • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Why aren’t grads syndicalizing‽ 🖕 monopsonies. get together and outcompete them.

    • The_v@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      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

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        “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.

        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.

  • Buhbyelittlegumshoe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    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.