Struggling Gen Z and millennial grads should consider turning their back on their degrees and retraining to become hospitality and trade workers, Randstad’s CEO warns.
He’s had to swim against the current for years, through multiple wrong turns and dead ends. He’s got an intense personality and was resistant to playing the necessary games to get ahead. But over time, he’s become more pragmatic. So yeah, there may have been some luck involved, but being first in his class helped too. (And is it luck to have been born smart? To have persistence? To have a supportive family?)
My other two kids (older) also got jobs in the fields they did their degrees in. In my daughter’s case, two of 30 people in her graduating class with the same degree as her actually found work in their field and remained employed in it a year later. Her take: “They’re bougie kids who expected zero-pressure jobs with no deadlines.”
Regardless, the CEO comes across as a self-serving, smug greedhead, and I suspect his messaging is not intended to benefit anyone but himself.
Or maybe your son was lucky.
Good on him though happy for the both of you 😊
He’s had to swim against the current for years, through multiple wrong turns and dead ends. He’s got an intense personality and was resistant to playing the necessary games to get ahead. But over time, he’s become more pragmatic. So yeah, there may have been some luck involved, but being first in his class helped too. (And is it luck to have been born smart? To have persistence? To have a supportive family?)
My other two kids (older) also got jobs in the fields they did their degrees in. In my daughter’s case, two of 30 people in her graduating class with the same degree as her actually found work in their field and remained employed in it a year later. Her take: “They’re bougie kids who expected zero-pressure jobs with no deadlines.”
Regardless, the CEO comes across as a self-serving, smug greedhead, and I suspect his messaging is not intended to benefit anyone but himself.