I believe it is correlated with the 'No Child Left Behind' legislation. If you look back to when this was passed and implemented, the current batch of college students and recent graduates are the first cohort to spend a majority of their schooling under the NCLB paradigm. Being continually passed from grade to grade, even if you haven't demonstrated adequate skills leads to a bunch of entitled under intelligent people. A lot of it is also due to a lack of self-awareness.
http://www.digiday.com/brands/15-sta...t-millennials/
23 percent of companies reported having heavy contact with parents of millennial employees.
31 percent of employers involved reported parents submitted resumes on behalf of their offspring.
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That's absurd. Top % I can see being around 5-10, but the bottom should be near 0.
And this shouldn't surprise anyone, although it's skewed (would be interesting to see unemployment for millennials at a similar age versus other generations):
"Millennial unemployment rate in January 2013 increased to the highest rate recorded for this demographic to 13.1 percent versus the national average of 7.1 percent. "
Ski edits | http://vimeo.com/user389737/videos
I can relate to this. As someone who has done a lot of hiring earlier in my career, I cam across some candidates that appeared very nervous, or just didn't interview very well. On one occassion it was a cse of being the best of the worst candidates to fill a position, and we went with a candidate that didn't interview very well but had a good resume, and more importantly good references. But they were one of the worst interviews. Turned out to be one of our best employees.
Then I end up interviewing someone who was just stellar in the interview. Really good resume with loads of experience. They turned into one of the flops. It's not an exact science, the whole interview process. And if you do a lot of hiring, it's like a sports draft. Some end up being diamonds in the rough. Some turn out to be really talented, and gifted but just lack the motivation. And some turn out to be Ryan Leaf. What can you say...
"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
it was kind of rhetorical
I guess I'll have stop coming on here then![]()
It's always good to get applicants through the mail.
http://abovethelaw.com/2013/07/lawye...t/#more-259553
GUNS!!!!
It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
Paging Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign...
You mean Carlos Danger?
...Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...
"I enjoy skinny skiing, bullfights on acid..." - Lacy Underalls
The problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them.
How about this Bob Filner fella?
I think he outshines weiner in the creep department.
Sounds like a real baboon.
any one got any good interview fail stories ???
I used to do staff training, once they gave me a guy who's hand writing was so bad even he couldn't tell wot certain numbers or letters were on legal documents that I needed to enter into the computor.
ok so I can't spell but not being able to read your own writing ???
We, the RATBAGGERS, formally axcept our duty is to trigger avalaches on all skiers ...
Holy shit, when I read that, you know, Cheerios went five feet. What a mess.
I'm a New Yorker. Well, not the city anymore, but, you know what I mean. I can only accept this thing (excuse the expression) as high black comedy. Otherwise, I'd kill myself. (He is leading in the polls, btw. Well, was.)
I mean, a guy named Weiner going by the alias of Carlos Danger. My freshman writing prof. would have thrown that little story back in my face with scorn.
Sometimes it's better to quit while you're losing:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_F6CiMD...%3D_F6CiMDWYzs
It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
I blame google.
watch out for snakes
Just stumbled across the thread and found it a good read, but was hoping to find something that I have been missing. Looks like I have been doing things more or less right...
Absolutely. I can go into some details of my experiences in the past week, but in the end one HR screening resulted in an on-site in 2 weeks, the other resulted in an embarrassing "bait and switch" because the position details were not clear at all.
Don't even get me started on those damn glitchy databases, or how different divisions of a corporation use the same software but can't link their databases....
See above. HR does not understand the position, the skills or the mindset. Most of the time they are matching keywords out of context, and cannot judge if a candidate is actually capable in the field because they are not capable themselves. Engineers should interview engineers, video production peeps and pizza shops should interview systemoverblowed.
The college I attended had a similar program, I can't even count how many interviews and contacts I was able to make via the co-op program. I know I blew the first few interviews, but I learned from them when it "didn't matter" and now can go into a meeting well informed, calm and allow my experience and work ethic to be the focus, not a casual demeanor or other negative quality. The salary wasn't the best, but it beat delivering pizza, and the experience was priceless.
The 23% is fucking ridiculous, but I can kind of see the 31% (still ridiculous). I have had well meaning family members send me links, information and contact info on numerous occasions for positions that they think I would be perfect for, but they have no understanding of my actual skill set or what I do. I can easily envision the next step being them sending in unsolicited applications.
I just got emailed a resume in a Microsoft Works format.
holy fucking shitballs
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