"Mark" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:36:49 -0000, "tim..."
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"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 17/11/2017 12:21, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

I have brought many new graduates into the computing industry.
Back when I started doing this in the 1980's, it took about 2 years
before they started paying back - until that point they are consuming
more management/training resources than they contribute back in work.
So unless they stay for probably 4-5 years, they were only a drain on
the company. This was within a large UK company (GEC).


But back then the GEC/Marconi way was to de-skill the graduates first by
giving them completely menial tasks and then at the end of the second
year
re-train then in the inefficient corporate ways.

These days you may find that with certain ways of recruitment to weed
out
the dross before employment, sponsored formal training and giving work
experience in holiday periods before full time employment gets you well
motivated graduates that give productive output in a very short time.
Long
gone are the days when an engineering graduate will have (or want) the
same job for life or even possibly stay with their first company for
more
than a couple of years.

That didn't happen in the 80s

It certainly did.

only in the sense that there are always going to be people who will stay
with a company forever

but the move on after 2 -3 years had already stated in the 80s

it isn't new to today



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If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around to hear him, is he
still wrong?

was he wrong before?

tim