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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers find that many new hires do not understand what it means to be a professional in terms of accountability and work schedule (such as a willingness to work nights and weekends).
| "I do think there is something to say about the younger generation. I don't like to use it as an excuse, but our generation will work hard, and then expect to be rewarded after I've shown you what I've done. The younger generation is coming in saying, 'Give me the money up front and then I'll work hard, and then I want more money and I'll work even harder.' So, it is kind of flipped a little bit. It is not all of the younger generation, but we're seeing more and more of that." | Southwest |
| "I'm an HR person, so I sit in on the initial interviews. And the one thing that I always find really interesting is that a lot of the candidates don't have any idea what we do in our industry. They don't even have a clue about our company. They know the name of the company and that's about it." | Southwest |