{Ep. 29} About that survey...
Jun 24, 2024
40% of employers agree our college grads are unemployable!
Ok so there I was just scrolling along when I see a friend share this...
DURING JOB INTERVIEWS, EMPLOYERS SAY RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES HAVE...
- STRUGGLE WITH EYE CONTACT 53%
- ASKED FOR UNREASONABLE COMPENSATION 50%
- DRESSED INAPPROPRIATELY 47%
- USED INAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE 27%
- REFUSED TO TURN ON CAMERA DURING A VIRTUAL INTERVIEW 21%
- BROUGHT A PARENT TO THEIR INTERVIEW 19%
- INTELLIGENT.COM
SURVEY DECEMBER 2023, 800 EMPLOYERS
Now if you know me I've been forecasting for a very long time that our kids are underdeveloped in key areas. I'm obsessed with it. It's like my brain is wired to listen and observe it. It's why you can picture me shouting, "THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GROWING UP AND GETTING EDUCATED!"
I can't help but sound the ALARM.
It is alarming and everyone should be concerned about what is happening with our youth.
I'm not here to shame and blame.
Just look at that survey and better yet read where the data came from... here's the link... draw your own conclusions.
Here's the pdf as well just in case...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y26zCHqBT-njz9PCb8FQjZhCCCebXBTM/view?usp=sharing
I think we can all agree we need to be doing better.
There are skills that need to be developed that are not being developed in school. They can't be. They are skills that can only develop when you engage with the world.
Things like having a job or volunteering. Opportunities to work with others towards a common goal. Team sports and activities that require collaboration and relationship development with peers as well as those potentially way older or way younger.
You can not put a price on the value of our young people connecting, collaborating and even earning in their communities.
Things like eye contact, how to present yourself and how to speak are all practiced skills. It's not something you learn in a book.
Too many young people are insulated and moving through into adulthood having very little engagement with the world. They don't know what things cost or what their earning potential is. They don't know how to develop that either because we wait way too long to have those conversations.
I've met those parents, I've worked with their kids. The ones that thought they were doing everything right and their love and support was wonderful, of course it was. The issue was the lack of assessing if it's all actually helping.
Saying things like, "Oh no, my child will not have a job until after uni. I don't want them to feel that pressure. I want them to focus on their studies."
All to common and potentially crippling. Not in that moment but in the decade to come.
MANY young people in their 20s are just starting to engage with the world. Developmentally I could make the case that they lost a decade. I know no one wants to hear that but here we are with this survey and the results speak for themselves!
Check out the full episode where I talk a little more about this here ↓↓↓
Thank you for being here!
