Posted on 07/14/2015 8:20:22 AM PDT by rktman
OVER the past 18 months, Queensland mining employer Jack Trenamen has developed a formula that helps him predict the performance of his new apprentices.
The country kids who have worked on mum and dad’s farm from a young age will work hard and appreciate every dollar they get. “You can’t fault ‘em on work ethic,” he says, adding that it shows in their performance.
But the ones who come from more affluent areas, whether that be from the big cities where their parents are a bit more well off and happy to give them pocket money, or mining regions where jobs are available and salaries are competitive, are more difficult to engage. They’re also less likely to agree to get their hands dirty when it comes time to sweep the shed.
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Instagram, texting and sipping lattes aren’t skills?
And this is the Land of Oz.
Imagine what’s it’s like here.
But you’ll never hear it from MINITRUE...
If we didn’t offer stupid majors, maybe we would have employable graduates who actually have some life skills.
I would much rather hire someone who at least financed a part of their education on their own rather than relying on Mom and Dad/Student loans.
That's what the military used to be for.
All three of my kids have had to cough up non-loan, non-grant, seat equity money for their college educations. Number three is working 60-70 hours a week this summer.
My nieces were informed by my brother that they had to get a job when they turned 16 - it wasn’t optional.
Now they have great jobs and are top performers, the part of the millennial generation that is making plenty of money and can afford to buy a house and have children.
Sounds like the grads from ANY of our schools harboring “professors” of applied nothingness who couldn’t pass a 1900 high school proficiency exam.
That means the vast, vast, VAST majority of womyn’s studies, african studies, etc idiots.
They start off with the assumption that the person doing the hiring really wants the “best” person for the job.
Do they? Really?
And how does the person doing the hiring define “best”?
“Well, of course, the person doing the hiring wants to hire the person who will be the most effective at the job.”
Do they? Really?
We don’t live in a world of unemotional robots.
People do the hiring. People have different motivations.
If the person doing the hiring is the manager of a department, does that manager want to hire somebody who is obviously smarter and better at doing the job in that department than the manager?
Nope.
So let’s take this out of the manager’s hands and let the Human Resource people do the hiring.
Does the human resource person truly know what skills and experience produce the “best” employee? They don’t work in that department.
How do they choose?
They don’t. They eliminate.
The resume didn’t have the proper words. Inexperienced. They didn’t fill in this part of the form. Sloppy. They didn’t get promoted in their last job. Lazy.
Our executives do a horrible job of selecting people for a position.
Managers don’t want good employees. They want employees who are subservient and loyal to the manager.
It takes courage and clear thinking to hire the “best” applicant. Demand that from the people doing the selecting.
Otherwise, hire your cousin. That’s how the union shops operate.
Yeah. They destroy anything good or useful.
My niece’s boyfriend is a mechanic. He makes a good living and no student loans either. If your kid wants to be an electrician, a plumber, a roofer, etc; congratulations you’ve raised someone with ambition and common sense.
The school and university leavers with ‘no skills to work at all’ - sounds like half of UCLA’s graduates!
http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/uclacatalog14-15-2.htm
African American Studies B.A., M.A.
African Studies M.A.
American Indian Studies B.A., M.A.
Art History B.A., M.A., Ph.D. [one or two per year get real jobs nationwide - out of how many?]
Asian American Studies B.A., M.A.
Asian Languages and Cultures Department:
Asian Humanities B.A.
Asian Languages and Cultures M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D.
Asian Religions B.A.
Chinese B.A.
Japanese B.A.
Korean B.A.
Chicana and Chicano Studies B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Comparative Literature B.A., M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D.
East Asian Studies M.A.
Gender Studies B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Global Studies B.A.
Indo-European Studies C.Phil., Ph.D.
Environmental Science B.S.
Environmental Science and Engineering D.Env.
African and Middle Eastern Studies B.A.
Asian Studies B.A.
European Studies B.A.
Latin American Studies B.A.
Islamic Studies M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D.
Latin American Studies M.A.
Music History B.A.
Musicology M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D.
Ancient Near East and Egyptology B.A.
Arabic B.A.
Iranian Studies B.A.
Jewish Studies B.A.
Middle Eastern Studies B.A.
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D.
Design | Media Arts B.A., M.F.A.
Ethnomusicology B.A., M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D.
Any major with “Studies” in its name is worthless in the job market.
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