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Old 05-03-2022, 01:31 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by rmay635703 View Post

Young professionals (engineering, IT, technical) have not had uniform increases in their job prospects, I deal with my old engineering college And most recent graduates are not able to find work in their field.
The job expansion has been mostly amongst yet again hospitality, elder care, food, delivery and other worthless professions that can’t pay bills.
I'm curious what type of engineers you are seeing struggling to find jobs. My first question is are they willing to relocate to hot job markets.

We have hired a few hundred engineers in the past few years and struggled to find candidates and we are fine with taking a new grad with zero engineering job experience. (Zero job experience of any kind is a red flag and I'm shocked at how many 23-24 year-old college grads have never worked a job for a paycheck)

It is also shocking how many absolutely bomb the first interview. Late, Zero enthusiasm, zero knowledge of the company, zero ability to coherently answer a simple interview question like "When you are faced with a problem, what do you do?"

My wife had an interview candidate flat out say they didn't want the job.
Q: Why are you interested in working for our company?
A: I'm not - my parents said I had to get a job.
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