Nowadays businesses face problems with new employees who just finished their education and lack some interpersonal skills such as the ability to work in a team. What do you think is the main cause of the problem? How can it be resolved?

Nowadays businesses face problems with new employees who just finished their education and lack some interpersonal skills such as the ability to work in a team. What do you think is the main cause of the problem? How can it be resolved?

 

Ielts Essay - Why Young Workers Cannot Adjust Easily?

Integrating fresh graduates into the system and hierarchy of an organization needs some stupendous efforts since these new recruits into the company folds find it hard to adjust with other, already employed, members of the work force. This is often due to some predictable reasons, but there are tangible solutions to this problem.

The young people taking up their first professional assignment are often raw, when it comes to communicating with others. They are not aptly trained to work in a team, as while pursuing their education at the varsities, their primary focus is always on pursuing individual goals – since they are awarded marks individually. Apart from that, the colleges only lay emphasis on development of technical and professional skills; and completely ignore fostering soft skills. Absence of practical soft skills poses biggest hurdle in the way of integration of the fresh graduate workers in the organization, and work in close coordination with others.

Besides this, the fresh workers turn out to be highly enthusiastic which is often interpreted into aggressiveness. The young people dream about, and are quite excited about implementing their knowledge they have gained at the universities, to bring about a change at the work place. This kind of behaviour has few takers among their senior colleagues that often results in friction among the seasoned and, fresh out of the college, workers.

However, there are ways to prevent this situation. Educational institutions should include soft skills development in the curriculum and provide adequate importance in the overall academic performance. Moreover, including more onsite training could also help develop all round skills of young learners.   

To conclude, it is necessary to “Catch them young” and make it a point to train young learners to develop soft skills when they are getting education, and employers and varsities must play a pivotal role in this.