richardhutnik said:
thranx said:
Mr Khan said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Mr Khan said:
This is a problem endemic to the entire hiring market. Everyone complains that they can't find good help. No-one is willing to *make* good help.
Even if i weren't someone whose life was directly effected by this mentality, you would figure something's gotta give somewhere.
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It's too expensive to make these kinds of risks. Unexperienced workers have been priced out of the market. It can take months of training to bring an unexperienced worker up to scratch - which lowers both their productivity and the productivity of their team members (who take time out from their actual job to train the newbie).
Not to mention the risk, because unexperienced workers are risky. They're use to short days, long lunches, and long holidays. They're use to the stimulation changing every hour or so. They're used to essentially unfettered, constant, socialising. My father (an employer) comments on how when he hires school-leavers, they tend to take more sick days, make more concentration-related mistakes, are less punctual, spend more time on the toilet, etc. They're also far more likely to drop out of a job they don't like.
This is why unexperienced workers can't get work. When you fix prices, you distort the market. The ironic thing is, it's the very policies you advocate, that have kept you out of work.
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Price fixing only takes place at the very bottom. The jobs i want aren't hiring me and people like me because of their own ineptitude.
It's as FamousRingo described: the private sector has somehow managed to create a labor shortage in a down market because they refuse to invest in labor, because they are way too picky and demanding.
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You sure its not the fact that public schools and college education no longer mean you know anything as they graduate everybody. Its easy to point fingers, but most peoples problems start with themselves. I have yet to see motivated hard working people not find jobs, and I have seen plenty of slackers stay unemployed for months or years.
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I I made the front page of the local paper landing the job I do now. So, did I suddently become more hard working that it enabled me to find a job, than before when I hadn't? For professional reasons I am not going into rate of pay and so on either.
Reality is far more complicated than people make it out to be, including yourself with that. The reality with college education is that it doesn't guarantee anything but can prevent peple from going anywhere without it.
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Perhaps you changed in the course of your job search. Perhaps you made your self more appealing by hitting the streets and finding work. Looking for work is hard work. Perhaps you took a job that at the begining of your job search seemed not good enough. I dont know your personal situation. But my point was that its easy to blame someone else, but most problems for people finding work come from the choices they have made. Wether it be to get a degree in something useless. Not working through school so they have experience along with an eduation. Drugs. Drinking. Smoking. Breaking the law. But to blame employers for not hiring people not up to their standards is not right.
