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Right here’s a reasonably broad open thread query for at the moment: Do you’re feeling like new workers at your organization or agency are much less ready than in earlier years? In case your workplace permits quite a lot of WFH days, how does onboarding look in 2024 — and the way does mentorship look? What issues are working in your organization, and which of them actually, actually aren’t?
There have been a TON of articles about this prior to now 12-16 months. In keeping with the WSJ (reward hyperlink):
The shortcomings run the gamut from common information, together with make change at a register, to mushy expertise resembling working with others. Employers are spending extra time and assets looking for candidates and infrequently reducing expectations once they rent. Then they’re spending thousands and thousands to repair new workers’ lack of primary expertise.
This sentiment was echoed by a number of responses in the newest Corporette survey,* with some folks commenting issues resembling:
- Junior associates are woefully unprepared to be skilled. Work ethic has severely modified.
- It looks as if fewer and fewer of our junior workers have any work experiences exterior {of professional} settings or internships, and it makes them very out of contact with the actual world.
- The newer hires appear to be much less ready to work with groups.
Clearly one enormous approach firms try to deal with that is by forcing workers to return to the workplace… however that tends to be wildly unpopular. Which then begs the query: How has onboarding modified at your organization? How has mentorship modified? Whether or not you’re a senior supervisor or a brand new employee simply out of faculty, I’d love to listen to your ideas…
Readers, what are you seeing at your firms? Do you’re feeling like new workers are much less ready than they have been in earlier years? (Or is that this only a generational factor, and never a “lack of studying”/pandemic subject?) Do you suppose that is one thing that higher onboarding and higher mentoring can repair?
* I’m nonetheless reviewing the Corporette survey, however hope to share a number of the data quickly. The winners have been picked again in December, and all have accepted their reward playing cards — congrats to B, Okay, and Okay!
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