Education is Very Important -BUT it is only one piece of the puzzle.
This is what happens when colleges and unis are more focused on selling the course than helping the student.
An article was published recently.....
Employers rejecting gen Y graduates with ‘over inflated view of their worth’
See:
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/employers-rejecting-gen-y-graduates-with-over-inflated-view-of-their-worth/story-fnkgbb3b-1227489952697
THEY’RE keen, qualified, and demand
decent dollars, but while university graduates may seem like attractive
candidates on paper, Australian employers are increasingly avoiding
hiring them.
And it’s their tertiary qualifications — and delusions of grandeur — that are turning bosses off.
Accounting boss Paul Fiumara, a partner at Brisbane firm DFK Hirn Newey, is just one of them.
“There
are a few problems with graduates,” he tells news.com.au. “They have
this over-inflated view of their worth, they come out of university
thinking they’re ready for the world, but (clients) don’t pay us the
rate that they pay to get some kid who doesn’t understand what their
needs are.”
He and other employers are looking at alternative recruiting grounds to fill their entry level jobs.
Although
he’s frustrated by the calibre of gen Y graduates universities are
offering up, Mr Fiumara isn’t blaming them. Instead he blames the
bloated institutions pumping them out. That’s why he’s stopped hiring
graduates altogether, instead picking ‘cadets’ out of high school.
IT’S NOT BOUNCING BACK
This not particularly inspiring news for Australian university students, all 985,000 of them.
Our
universities are filled with more professional hopefuls than ever
before but employers have never been less interested in them.
Graduate employment is the lowest it’s been since the 1992-93 recession.
Here at ACS We decided to leave the mainstream education system over 10 years ago; BECAUSE we could see this trend developing. We turned our attention to delivering the learning rather than creating hype!
Colleges and unis in the mainstream still have good resources and wonderful academics; but all too often the politicians and bureaucrats are more concerned about selling the courses; getting more students and generating income -and to do this they have been "over selling" education for so long that they and their students are now believing their own hype.
Problem is -the employers aren't!
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