Graduation Analysis: Work Experience

Have you ever imagined the world with students reigning over the industry? Would you expect the intelligence of us young high schoolers to match the adults of today? Work Experience: Filled with passion and excitement, we set out to companies that we appealed for, only to be cast aside, and to do what us ‘millenials’ are to do — scroll through countless feeds, texting,…… Most of us only sought frustration when companies let us be like bunches of insolent brats we are perceived as in society. This is why work experience shouldn’t get expectations high in the sky, since as students, we ‘lack conviction, endurance and knowledge’. We are perceived as useless to the company as an asset, and this is why students are too unprepared to be entitled

Even we are involved, being consumers of the apparent cycle. With the arrival of young inexperienced students, the management is disrupted in its smooth flow. A sudden drop of a barricade in a river. Most companies around aren’t prepared for interns, and you’re expecting us students to scout companies themselves? Being unprepared and unsure of what to do for this new idea, what can you do as a CEO? Think in their shoes — you’d probably just give us mundane tasks like sorting the bookshelves, filing the papers, etcetera etcetera. You wouldn’t even care about us. Let’s not forget the companies have a lack in helping hands — they do not want more trouble. Does a HIGHSCHOOL student know what to do in a company without being told? No! We’ll just be left with office boy work, that’s it! The management will never take us seriously and trust us with actual work, an issue of belief present in Work Experience, leading to disregarding, discouraging devastation. In addition, as I had previously stated, the management will not have enough time to teach we all about their company, and let’s remember the company we’ve sought might not be our final choice for preparation in the future: efforts might go to

To obtain tasks, a person requires the knowledge of skills such as subjective vocabulary, learning programmes, etc. If all of us were willing to learn such lavish range of vocabulary for just a week’s worth of experience, that would be great. Even so, 1 week is not a distinct, desirable duration to nurture their ability. Moreover, you think the company has time for that, think carefully — do you really think they have time to prepare for that? No! Lengthening the duration of work experience would cause a huge disruption within education. Students would have to catch up with an enormous amount of schoolwork, and in that process, we will also forget most keywords they learned in that 1 week. So even if we go for it, work placement without detailed basic training beforehand, which the company has absolutely no time for, would be all for naught. ‘Students are unprepared? Then they need to get ready!” is what you think? Do we have the resources and time to do so? Open your eyes, the world may seem convenient for us students, but we’re human. We have our coursework, our grades, our co-curricular activities, our college applications, our health — we have our own