Companies Are Quickly Firing Gen Z Employees

“Companies Are Quickly Firing Gen Z Employees” 

So wrote the Newsweek in September 2024. The Newsweek was reporting on a survey conducted in the United States that noted

The survey revealed that one in six businesses said they were hesitant to hire recent college graduates over concerns about how prepared they are for the work as well as their communication skills and professionalism. And six in 10 employers had already fired college graduates who were hired in 2024. One in seven said they might refrain from hiring new college grads next year as well.

Generation Z is made up of people who were born after 1995 and are the future of our workforce. However the article also observed that

Colleges are not preparing students for real-world work. Education today emphasizes theory over practice. Employers are now asking for skills not prioritized by the education system. When graduates subsequently fall short, companies are not investing in training either. Instead of training companies are simply firing new Gen Z hires.

The commentator concluded that

The solution is not to stop hiring people fresh out of school but instead change how education and professional development are viewed, he added.

"Companies are failing workers by not taking responsibility for training and hoping that a college degree can substitute,.

We have argued for years that the answer is to incorporate learning is the formalisation of informal training. In this way the new employees will learn on the job by people who know the work through an INTRATERNSHIP process. At the very least an organisation will learn which of the new employees has an aptitude to learn and an attitude to want to learn. The cost to the organization is minimal and the benefits are that the new employees will feel that they are being included.

And INTRATERNSHIP is not an induction programme. It’s an ongoing learning process where peers teach each other and those within their sphere of influence. More often than not the INTRATERNSHIP programme focuses on the practical skills that are required to perform a function. Theory is limited to the performance of the function and does not become a stumbling block in the learning process, thereby creating a less threatening and more productive working experience.

Once the INTRATERNS have mastered that function they are then encouraged to teach those same peers how they have modified those skills they have learned and found efficiencies in the workplace. The cycle continues, the learning and sharing of knowledge never stops.

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