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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
As an older guy (40's) once told me about how my industry works, they hire on demand.... its 100 people to train 1 guy right now, but when I am at the 5+ years experience, it will be 1 guy training 100 people... just the way the industry works.
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Any idea what the success/failure rate of new hires would be? In my line of work, if you hire 5 people, 2 of them likely pass as being able to put up with the job. Of those two, you will likely be able to retain one of them past two years because the other person at two years will likely find a more lucrative job elsewhere, and be mad enough that nothing will keep them from leaving.
Makes it tricky because the young guys learn things like software really easy. But the job fails to capture their attention to be bothered to learn it,or stay interested in it. Old guys can do the job, but are hard to train, and their productivity is much lower. What's worse, a $30,000 work station barely outperforming, the $7500 work station? Or spending 60% of your time on training to get good production 40% of the time? I know my line of work has to change it's approach to training new people.