It’s because college kids today can’t do math, one line of reasoning goes. Or they don’t know science. Or they’re clueless about technology, aside from their myriad social-media profiles. These are all good theories, but the problem with the unemployability of these young adults goes way beyond a lack of STEM skills. As it turns out, they can’t even show up on time in a button-down shirt and organize a team project.



The technical term for navigating a workplace effectively might be soft skills, but employers are facing some hard facts: the entry-level candidates who are on tap to join the ranks of full-time work are clueless about the fundamentals of office life.



http://business.time.com/2013/11/10/...ant-get-hired/

 

Or that people are overqualified for their current positions and are taking up more entry level positions than usual. My company has employees with Master degrees and CPAs filling positions as entry level billing coordinators and AP clerks.



As the economy suffers, the younger generation stays in school longer to get more advanced degrees because there is a lack of job opportunity, as noted above. They get their more advanced education and have to settle for lower positions, have a tough time entering the work force and have even more money racked up in student loans with less opportunity to pay it off.



Right now, it SUCKS to be 20-25 and trying to pursue a career. Sky high debt and entry-level income to show for their efforts.



Many of the Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers are somewhat recovering with the economy but Generation Z is getting f*cked.

 

It is because of govt guaranteed loans.... The govt once again, needs to stay out of the peoples business, and quit trying to make us all equal. Different classes are necessary for a society to work effectively.



If you are too poor to go to school, then you don't go. You get a job working the mail room/janitor, and if you do a good job, maybe an apprenticeship, and if you are still doing good, then an entry level job and so on. Or you stay a janitor or work at BK and live a 'poor' persons life, and not have the latest iphone, 72" TV and extended cable, and an escalade. And suck at your entry level job (or worse get promoted and no way less than the entry level position and he ends up doing your job for you) that you don't care about, think you deserve better, but you didn't really learn anything in college, since you didn't want to be there that bad, but since the govt gave you loans to go, you went anyway.



Or if you do have enough money to go to college, when you graduate, there will then be plenty of jobs for you.



But now, everyone gets to go, so now a BS is like a HS grad, everyone has one, it has very little value.



America is/was the land of opportunity, meaning with hard work, (as the first poor guy starting in the mail room) and determination, the opportunity to make something of oneself is there. Now it is the land of equality/entitlement, where everyone deserves to be rich, regardless of their hard work.

 

Everything that was already said, but also add on the fact that even recent college grads dont understand how to balance a checkbook, or even manage a household budget effectively. Seems silly, yes, but a lot of schools don't teach students (HS and college) the skills they need to be functioning adults which furthers the problem. This adds on to the reason why people these days show up for job interviews in jeans and play with their phones the entire time.



Can't be a professional, functioning member of society, then I don't care what kind of degree you have, GTFO.

 

The problem is the current crop of young people wasn't trained . . . by their PARENTS. They had helicopter moms and everybody got a participation trophy for showing up to anything, but all the icky stuff that might harm little johnny's self-esteem was just left completely off the curriculum.



Now they are finding out that, contrary to what the song says, there IS such a thing as The Real World and they aren't ready for it. As a generation, they are seen by employers as not worth the time and effort necessary to train them to work



... especially when their GRANDPARENTS are happy to take the low-wage jobs the teens and 20-somethings would normally get because retirement and savings accounts are sucking wind hard-core, if they even have any savings. Most of them don't have nearly enough savings because THEIR parents never taught them how to do finances properly. Thanks, WWI/WWII for killing off the people who were supposed to rear the next few generations properly, and thanks industrial revolution-era fat cats who didn't want public schools to train people to think farther than reading an instruction sheet on a factory machine.



We're screwed. The same people who can't read their own COLLEGE diplomas are going to be running the country in 40 years.