employers want cake; universities keep sending flour & sugar

What if, whenever you ordered a chocolate cake for delivery from the local bakery, they came by and threw a sack filled with cake ingredients on your doorstep?

And what if the bakery’s response to your complaint was, “But these are the finest ingredients, and we put them in an expensive silk sack! Oh, and we always deliver them in less than an hour!”

Would that make any difference to you?

Of course not.

you wanted a finished product, and they delivered raw materials

Of all of the challenges you hear facing the early-career search process and entry-level jobs, the biggest is that universities aren’t equipping grads with the skills and experiences employers are looking for.

So, even if you fix all the issues you hear out there:

• Parents need to help make their students aware of the college resources available to them

• Students need to do more preparatory legwork

• Career centers need to do a better job connecting students to employers

• AI is doing much of the entry-level work now

colleges are still sending completely unskilled individuals to companies

And then they’re saying, “Here you go, employers! Now use your time, money, and resources to turn these people into useful assets.”

And employers have finally gotten sick of it.

And is it any wonder?

Companies keep saying they want cake, and universities keep throwing sacks of flour and sugar on their doorsteps.