rahmu wroteHow come you constantly find jobs offers where "2 years experience is a must"? No company ever wants to take care of providing training and "formation".
What are fresh graduates supposed to do for a job? and more importantly, who says they're less productive?
I could see how some professional experience could lower the risk of the recruit turning out a bad one, but what I don't understand is why can't we trust students.
In my school in France we used to have something called the "Junior Enterprise". Basically it consisted of providing professional services to clients who could not afford graduated engineers. It consisted mainly of businesses who needed websites, intranets, mailing services, newsletter services, but also database deplloyement, CRM/ERP solutions, "mini" data warehouses,...
My point is that there's a huge potential in students (at very reduced costs) and as long as managers and HR people don't realize it, business will remain behind in Lebanon. Jut my opinion.
PS That remark is not addressed to you specifically Rita, it's more of a general observation about the job offers and the market. Other than that, welcome to the forum, and keep us posted with demands.
PS2: Nice blog, btw.
I won't take it personal :) I'm just doing my thing. I would like to clear out something nevertheless:
-Some companies do look for fresh grads. The one I'm working with does that frequently and it provides internships as well with the opportunity to get a full time job afterwards.
-Most of the time when you see "minimum 2" translate it into: company is in a hurry or has lots of projects & there is barely time to really coach & train.
-I do agree with you on several points, I faced that when I started looking for a job. (I graduated in Marketing) I sent 200 CVs only to get ZERO reply and end up in HR :)
PS: Thank you very much!!!