Its not a matter of whether or not to hire, in my opinion. It’s just a known issue that education got screwed during covid. The students have been performing worse and its led to less educated/adapted adults graduating from high school and college.
If you don’t acknowledge there is an issue, then you can’t do anything to help it.
A lot of that is jobs requiring a BS for no reason and not even using the skills it teaches, and those jobs complaining that colleges don’t teach enough Java or some other shitty industry tool or whatever in their theoretical computer science programs and colleges lowering standards to make themselves more marketable with higher graduation rates. And now they have software engineering degrees which is probably more relevant for a lot of software engineering jobs but they still expect CS.
I can guarantee that you have no idea what your roles actually require, or that you’re far too cheap and too bad of a boss to actually train workers or recognize talent.
If you cannot find labor at this point in US history, it is explicitly your fault. 100%. There are 70 million people according to this report that are out of work. I can guarantee you they’re broke and looking for work. If out of 70 million people you cannot find 5 for your roles, and you’ve got the free time to post on Lemmy of all niche social media, you are bad at your job.
Strong opinions, but I’ve struggled with fresh outs since COVID as well. The graduates that started college during COVID were the worst. There was a significant drop in verbal communication skills. That has gotten somewhat better, but is nowhere near what it was with pre-COVID graduates.
There’s tons of little things that you need to work through with a lot of fresh outs that used to not be a problem. It’s pretty common they won’t let you know when they finish a task, and they’ll wait for you to check in on them. The “better” ones that do this try to fill their time researching random stuff that interests them, the lower performer ones will just sit their on their phones doom scrolling.
Education got hit hard during Covid. I’m just starting to see some rebound in quality of students, but schools themselves haven’t recovered either. So students are struggling and schools aren’t in a good spot to help cover the gaps.
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Its not a matter of whether or not to hire, in my opinion. It’s just a known issue that education got screwed during covid. The students have been performing worse and its led to less educated/adapted adults graduating from high school and college.
If you don’t acknowledge there is an issue, then you can’t do anything to help it.
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A lot of that is jobs requiring a BS for no reason and not even using the skills it teaches, and those jobs complaining that colleges don’t teach enough Java or some other shitty industry tool or whatever in their theoretical computer science programs and colleges lowering standards to make themselves more marketable with higher graduation rates. And now they have software engineering degrees which is probably more relevant for a lot of software engineering jobs but they still expect CS.
I’m a college grad looking for a job right now, if I’m worthless then what should I do differently?
Wishing you a very eat broken glass
Sounds like your requirements are too high
It is hard to find people qualified for ones bullshit.
I can guarantee that you have no idea what your roles actually require, or that you’re far too cheap and too bad of a boss to actually train workers or recognize talent.
If you cannot find labor at this point in US history, it is explicitly your fault. 100%. There are 70 million people according to this report that are out of work. I can guarantee you they’re broke and looking for work. If out of 70 million people you cannot find 5 for your roles, and you’ve got the free time to post on Lemmy of all niche social media, you are bad at your job.
Having mentored a number of interns that are still in college, there’s definitely competent grads out there.
Either you’re offering a joke salary or you’ve got a problem selecting talent.
Strong opinions, but I’ve struggled with fresh outs since COVID as well. The graduates that started college during COVID were the worst. There was a significant drop in verbal communication skills. That has gotten somewhat better, but is nowhere near what it was with pre-COVID graduates. There’s tons of little things that you need to work through with a lot of fresh outs that used to not be a problem. It’s pretty common they won’t let you know when they finish a task, and they’ll wait for you to check in on them. The “better” ones that do this try to fill their time researching random stuff that interests them, the lower performer ones will just sit their on their phones doom scrolling.
Education got hit hard during Covid. I’m just starting to see some rebound in quality of students, but schools themselves haven’t recovered either. So students are struggling and schools aren’t in a good spot to help cover the gaps.