Is there any relation between lack of education with our job?
August 14th, 2008 by sugig
Some people have education and skills but are underemployed. They often work in construction or the hospitality industry. A teenager can walk off the street into any fancy bar or lounge. He can obtain a job without experience and education. The employer wants experience.
Oftentimes, if people have experience, they are offered lower quality jobs in the industry. People keep talking about overqualified individuals. If somebody was overqualified, he simply wouldn’t be offered a job.
It is amazing to me that someone would offer a job that is not being requested when the job is not filled to a person with more experience. The problem is not about overqualification. It is about treating people with the utmost disrespect when he or she does what is necessary to succeed.
The wage structures, employment standards, hiring practices, industry management and company policy of these places must be overhauled. This is why I oppose letting people without education and experience get ahead so quickly. They should have to pay their dues.
What is wrong is when people who want a second chance do not get one, when people with desire and ambition are sidelined for less-qualified individuals and when people are discriminated against. It is a myth that overqualified people are hired for jobs they do not qualify for. It is an endemic problem that underachieving people get jobs and then take off The employers had the chance to hire people who wanted a job but refused to do so.
They do this in many ways. They do not offer full-time positions. They do not combine positions to create a full-time job. They underpay people. They demand excessive education and experience for low skill jobs. They refuse to hire people who are qualified in favor of people who are qualified. They do not offer short-term positions that could lead to long-term opportunities. They want people to be available all the time for part-time positions.
They refuse to accommodate a schedule for another job. They demand people quit other positions. They refuse to pay overtime for work. They alter schedules without informing anyone on the phone, in person or through email. Then when this person doesn’t show up for a shift he wasn’t aware of, the employer blames the person. He puts up a schedule and changes it five times.
So many foreigners and immigrants complain about it. They were all hard-working individuals from places such as Jamaica, India, Japan, Iraq, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, the Netherlands, South Africa, Israel and Russia. They resented the low wages, excessive educational demands, rejection of experience, demand for unrelated experience, lack of hours and other conditions.
People get tired of having to work on an on-call basis for a dishwashing position or some other low skill job. Nobody cares to be put through two or three interviews, etc. when he brings in a resume with references. Then the manager makes him fill out an application form when the information is on the resume.
For the conclusion, for financial crisis condition like now, some employeer need have experience people as their employee, and they have power because they have money. Some people don’t like fresh graduated who maybe as smart as professor. Because most of smart people don’t like someone smarter than he/she is.
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