“Very few employers want to hire liberal arts majors,” the research director said.
Approximately half of U.S. human resource leaders don’t think that college prepares students for work, according to a study published Tuesday. – more at Daily Caller
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Well … DUH!
izlamo delenda est …
College doesn’t prepare you to think (which is it’s chief duty) … why would anyone think that it prepares you to actually contribute to society in a meaningful way?
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ – Most college children want it the other way around, and have society contribute to them.
@Uncle Al ~ Egg Zack Lee! … they truly believe, since their parents sacrificed all that lucre for them to party for 4 years, that society somehow owes them.
“Approximately half of U.S. human resource leaders don’t think that college prepares students for work, according to a study published Tuesday.”
Please let me make a correction:
“Approximately half of U.S. human resource leaders ADMIT they don’t think that college prepares students for work, according to a study published Tuesday. The other don’t either. They just won’t admit it.”
How many businesses have Cry Closets?
Point proven. Q.E.D.
The HR weenies took their sweet time figuring out what we technical hiring managers knew 25 or more years ago. I’ve had several heated discussions with HR people when I asked them why the hell they had applicant screening questions that tended to screen out the best qualified people? A university degree was utterly unimportant to me (with a very few exceptions) but work experience or somehow knowing that the applicant could rise to the demands to learn new things and apply them in a practical, businesslike manner were paramount. I saw a lot of blank stares and sweaty foreheads when I’d ask glib college grad what they had learned that led them to believe they could actually perform the tasks in the job description. Not what courses they’d taken, not what degree they had, but what they knew and/or what they’d built.
I met two BSMEs who didn’t know what gaskets did (one may have had his Masters).
I met a BSEE who built a power supply WITH NO WAY TO PLUG IT IN!
And all three of these graduated from major East Coast Universities.
(all of them really nice people, by the way, and willing to learn)
izlamo delenda est …
I’m with Uncle Al.
Don’t get me started on “Human Resources”….what an oxymoron that is.
I’ve been doing what I do 45 years, and they’re worried about the picayune; sensitivity and political correctness.
I’m guessing “human resource leaders” have the same agents, get the same casting calls, as “public servants”?
When I hire someone I sure wouldn’t want HR Department to do anything other than setting up payroll and benefits. I want to interview every candidate I consider for the position. Sure, I need a resume, but my decision is going to be made based upon intelligence, work ethic, and personality. Schooling and even prior work is not that big a factor, except as they can use it to show how qualified they are to do the job.
For the last 15 years I look for people with a military back ground. I’ve never had one let me down.
High school puts out people who can’t read a tape measure. So the tradesmen have to hold their hand. They don’t seem to like much about work, but they can tell you when the breaks are near.
I’ve had good luck with military and home schooled.
Plus the rise in minimum wage make employees have to be more competent out of the box
I worked in Government as a Manager during the patronage years.
Education, Knowledge and Experience were not always hiring criteria.
Who you knew was what got you hired for 65% of the positions.
Ability to learn was necessary.
If you couldn’t learn the job you were hired to do, rather than termination, they would shuffle you to another position in a different section or department until they found something the new hire could do. Termination was the very last resort for a politician’s referral.
In the dozen or so hiring interview committees that I have participated, a degree counts little in comparison to experience, intelligence, work ethic, and personality – and I work in a college. My college HR department has sent forth many applicants who should have been round-filed, and many applicants who did not make their cut. HR should stay out of the hiring process and leave hiring to the department in need.
Waddya mean thay’re not qualified with a college degree? Where do all those baristas come from?
While they’ll admit that college doesn’t prepare one for the work world, they’ll turn right around and deny a capable employee the promotion they’ve earned because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree and give the promotion to one of those unprepared clowns that do.
I have no bachelor’s degree, and am having a hard time finding a better job close to where I live because so many HR managers have a parchment fetish.
But now I have something to put on my resume under “Education”: a link to this article.
@Toenex May 2, 2018 at 11:13 pm “High school puts out people who can’t read a tape measure.”
Colleges put out people who can’t read an analog clock.
I’d rather hire a high school kid who built his own computer than a college grad-you-ate who needs help finding the on-off button. Or a 70-year-old who really enjoys learning new things and will actually WORK, even if slowly, instead of an entitled snowflake who thinks they should get $100K starting salary and be put in charge of the place after a week because they know so much more than the people who’ve been there 30 years.