Why are companies so picky when choosing their employees?

southerncritic

It's like nothing is ever enough for them. Each day, companies are more demanding when picking a new employee, not only they want someone with a higher education, but also with previous work experience. How do they expect a new graduate to have the work experiences they're demanding? Also, they want to hire someone with a degree and experience in the work field for the same wages than they would if the candidate had no higher education at all. Enterprenerus also have the habit of hiring recent graduates and loading them with work making those kids work for low wages and for laborous hours. It's like we are reading a chapter of the industrial revolution under the aegis of money-hungry scoundrels.

When you leave university you just want a job opportunity, you want to work, even if it's for $ 1.00 per hour. But, then you will find out that you are not being hired because companies either think your written skills are not enough or your math skills aren't good enough. They want a perfect,flawless robot PERIOD. That's impossible, unless you started working at an early age and in enrolled in uni very early as well, you won't have the skills that companies are demanding for. My dad started working at an early age, when he was 13, in the family farm then moved to a big town, finished high school and soon after got hired by a company. Things are, life 30 years ago was much easier than today, a high school diploma was the ultimate thing to get you a good job, but these days a uni degree is equal to finishing High School. Things have changed drastically.

Vejovis

do you live in America?

Emmzi

I want people who don't think a degree makes them magic or special, or in any way comparable with those with years of real life experience.

When they have experience, I'll pay them more.

moneypuddle

I would have thought rather obviously they are picky because they can afford to be

jc808

moneypuddle wrote: »

I would have thought rather obviously they are picky because they can afford to be

pretty much

southerncritic

Emmzi wrote: »

I want people who don't think a degree makes them magic or special, or in any way comparable with those with years of real life experience.

When they have experience, I'll pay them more.

How do you expect them to get that real life experience? People with that sort of attitude are dragging America down along with the rest of the world.

LadyMissA

southerncritic wrote: »

How do you expect them to get that real life experience? People with that sort of attitude are dragging America down along with the rest of the world.

you have to start at the bottom in most if not all jobs and work your way up. I think people are saying just because someone has a degree doesn't mean thay will get a senior job right away.

SarEl

southerncritic wrote: »

People with that sort of attitude are dragging America down along with the rest of the world.

It is no doubt going to come as a shock to you, but the United States is part of the world, and no better than anywhere else. Isolationist attutudes and arrogance because you are "bigger" than some places does not make you better - it makes you narrow-minded and foolish.

Just because you are a graduate - in any part of the world - does not make you better than people who haven't been to university, and if that's what you think then you have a lot of hard lessons to learn. You have evidenced nothing except your ability to study (and we don't even know how well you have evidenced that) - now employers will require you to evidence that that study has some practical application and that you are worth something to them. They aren't going to be paying for the "privilege" of employing you, a graduate - they want results and they don't care about the educational status of the person who gives them the results, only that they do.

Emmzi

southerncritic wrote: »

How do you expect them to get that real life experience? People with that sort of attitude are dragging America down along with the rest of the world.

by accepting a lower paid start job while they get experience.

with their massive brain they will get promoted faster than others, surely?

yes. yes, I am a scourge to america. I really am.

Hezzawithkids

The answer is simple. Because they can.

DVardysShadow

southerncritic wrote: »

How do you expect them to get that real life experience? People with that sort of attitude are dragging America down along with the rest of the world.

This is an Iranian site. There is no help for America here. You are the Great Stan and I claim my 5 Rials.