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CaramonLS · 05-04-2009, 06:28 PM

This is coming from a perspective of someone who does hiring.

I see those kids (GEN Y) walk through the doors where I work each and everyday, they sit down, interview with me and 95% of them walk out without a job, I'm getting over 100 applications a week and maybe hiring 3 people each week?

Most of them walk into interviews completely unprepared, under dressed and with a sense of entitlement. Sure, this might be retail, but there is a hell of a lot of competition for work.

And this is coming from someone who is Generation Y and I do try to go out of my way to hire these sorts of people, because they are the future of our company. Simply put, most of them just can't cut it.

Why hire them when they want every Friday, Saturday and Sunday off when I can find plenty of new Canadians who are excellent workers, desperate and willing to work their ass off for us? And they show up prepared and well dressed.

Part of it boils down to schools and part to the parents. No one has bothered to teach these kids how to go find a job. You can tell most of them have never done a mock interview. Hell, they haven't bothered to proof read their resumes before they fire them off.

It wont matter really to most of them, because they don't need to work anyways. Their parents were the ones making them look for a job in the first place.

Mommy and Daddy will simply look sympathetically at them, tell them they tried their best, tell them that it wasn't their fault that they couldn't find a job and let them have the summer off; instead of actually realizing their kid is an epic failure and actually trying to instill some work ethic into them, helping them get a job in the future. I don't really see too much changing any time soon.

05-04-2009, 06:28 PM	#142
CaramonLS Retired Join Date: Mar 2003 Exp:	This is coming from a perspective of someone who does hiring. I see those kids (GEN Y) walk through the doors where I work each and everyday, they sit down, interview with me and 95% of them walk out without a job, I'm getting over 100 applications a week and maybe hiring 3 people each week? Most of them walk into interviews completely unprepared, under dressed and with a sense of entitlement. Sure, this might be retail, but there is a hell of a lot of competition for work. And this is coming from someone who is Generation Y and I do try to go out of my way to hire these sorts of people, because they are the future of our company. Simply put, most of them just can't cut it. Why hire them when they want every Friday, Saturday and Sunday off when I can find plenty of new Canadians who are excellent workers, desperate and willing to work their ass off for us? And they show up prepared and well dressed. Part of it boils down to schools and part to the parents. No one has bothered to teach these kids how to go find a job. You can tell most of them have never done a mock interview. Hell, they haven't bothered to proof read their resumes before they fire them off. It wont matter really to most of them, because they don't need to work anyways. Their parents were the ones making them look for a job in the first place. Mommy and Daddy will simply look sympathetically at them, tell them they tried their best, tell them that it wasn't their fault that they couldn't find a job and let them have the summer off; instead of actually realizing their kid is an epic failure and actually trying to instill some work ethic into them, helping them get a job in the future. I don't really see too much changing any time soon.