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If I had to complain about things, it would be these: 1. Lack of workplace training - very few employers will pay for you to train/gain experience, partly because there's nothing preventing someone from jumping ship for better pay once the training is complete 2. Credentialism - the things that actually matter in hiring are either difficult or illegal to test for (conscientiousness, knowledge, intelligence), and so d…
> very few employers will pay for you to train/gain experience Yes and no. Most HVAC shops will pay for technician's training. Most dev shops pay for technical conferences. Most managers have access to management seminars and training. Expecting an employers to pay tens of thousands of dollars seems weird, but many employers do pay on a smaller scale for skills training. > degrees are used as proxies instead Though c…
It's why you see so many forums talking about sending out applications to hundreds of places for months when searching for their first job, then never having a problem again after.