A new study concludes Hamilton's youngest workers have a sense of entitlement that's keeping them out of jobs.
In its 2014 Labour Market Plan, Workforce Planning Hamilton and other agencies said the survey of employers showed getting workers with the right "soft skills" is becoming more difficult.
"Soft skills … refer to personal qualities, habits, attitudes and social graces that make a worker a good employee and compatible with an organization's workplace culture," the report states.
The attitude these little shits show in the classroom? It carries on into the workforce. Even if they manage to get a university or college degree, they still continue to be little shits.
The first few paragraphs of this article have a couple of gems worth mentioning:
- "A new study concludes Hamilton's youngest workers have a sense of entitlement that's keeping them out of jobs. "
- "...[applicants assume] an employer, or the world, owes them a living..."
I agree that the attitudes that many of those people had while they were students stays with them into the workplace. I've seen it first-hand.
ReplyDeleteBut, there's another side to the story. Many employers simply want cheap labour and they use the apparent lack of "soft skills" to justify bringing in foreign workers, a plan which is quite controversial here in Canada.
But there are some employers who, quite legitimately, can't find domestic applicants who are willing to do a decent day's work. Often, those applicants have a terrible attitude and a behaviour to match. By comparison, I know of a number of temporary foreign workers who not only do a proper job, but are quite polite.