It's because new grads THINK that they are owed $80k/yr salaries right out of the gate.

I was chatting with my brother about my nephew's first job that he started last month after looking for over a year (May 2024 grad). "He likes it fine, but he's only make $75k." Ok, but he's not a fully licenses CPA yet. "Only" making $75k/yr as a Jr. Accountant at a company who is going to sponsor his CPA exam & licensing fees is good. He wouldn't even be making $75k/yr outside of the DMV. I said I thought that was a good salary for someone with his experience level and my brother's response was "But he went to Duke!" *eyeroll*

Anonymous wrote:The era of woke universities is coming to an end, thankfully.

Yep AI and Trump’s disaster of economy have destroyed a strong job market. This is what maga wanted. The only jobs will be low pay part time work assembling iPhones for $3.60 an hour. Even uber is going away.

Anonymous wrote:The era of woke universities is coming to an end, thankfully.

The era of universities is coming to an end (here).

The era of woke universities is coming to an end, thankfully.

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Anonymous wrote:It's well document that companies now see workers more and more as interchangeable and replaceable. No loyalty from the company, expect no loyalty or dedication from your workforce. Only people willing to put up with the crap are foreigners for that half generation.

Maybe at low and mid levels. You have to become an expert in something, so that you do something hard that other people can’t do or don’t want to. Subject matter experts are not interchangeable or a “dime a dozen.”

Talk to the AI.

THIS! I know a Chemical Engineering SME and interestingly, an AI SME with papers and talks under their belt, replaced by AI. AI does the job better without the emotion. You need fewer to check whether AI is on point. SMEs in most fields are part of the old days whether we like it or not. It is scary.

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Bet you were forced to hire this person by some Scumbag MBA in corporate

Everyone acts like they need a purple squirrel and yet companies are not willing to Train our own kids

What happened ??

In the 80’s and 90’s I hired smart kids from
State schools and/ associate degrees and trained them to be testers or programmers (Java and cobol and perl ) but now no one does that

Just look at the contempt in this thead. Our kids are the same as we were.

But the contempt is new , were does that come from ??

No they aren't.

They are screen smart phone junkies.
Their public schools were anhilated by No Child Left Behind / Common Core *new* curriculum BS and overtesting.
And their colleges lost their way and mission to educate.

You know that No Child Left Behind was a Republican initiative, right? Pushed by Bush and introduced in Congress by Boehner? And that Common Core was a state initiative, not a federal one?

But of course most Republicans likely believe it was "woke liberal garbage" like NCLB and Common Core

You forget that Obama picked up NCLB ans gave it a new name. Then because D and R can’t stand to be seen as bipartisan, it became a hot potato. Look it up along with Jeb Bush and Barak Obama.