Denying qualified young people jobs for 'older heads' is ‘garbage’- Caller
The male caller referred to the trend as “garbage” and one that is sending the wrong message to the youth.
According to him, this is a battle that the young people of the territory currently faces when they are seeking gainful employment in the field that they obtained degrees in. Instead, according to the caller, the older heads are given the jobs and they must remain home, unemployed.
He said experience is gained through employment and not bought in a supermarket like groceries.
“…Talking about experience, that’s garbage. You cannot walk in no supermarket to get experience, nowhere in the world. You get experience over a period of time, you gain experience over the years. But how do the young people get experience if you don’t hire them? That’s garbage, you sending the wrong message to the young people them,” he pointed out.
The same caller also claimed that some of the young people when they come back from studying overseas have to go back since they are unable to find jobs at home.
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33 Responses to “Denying qualified young people jobs for 'older heads' is ‘garbage’- Caller”
The BVI is a tiny dot in the Caribbean Sea in a tropical paradise with a small open economy, growing population( especially young), aging Boomer generation, narrow and undiversified economic base, limited job creation, rising standard of living and quality of life, a large public sector, heavy dependence on government for direct and indirect employment, rising demand and expectation for workers to have experience.......etc. Additionally, due to improved medicine and lifestyle changes, people are living longer, healthier lives, and as a result, people are working longer. What are the solutions?
The problem(s) cannot be adequately address just thru a blog. Nonetheless, for starters, it must be addressed as one of government's top priority item on its bucket list. A national growth and development plan, along with an economic diversification plan, a job creation plan, an effective infrastructure developing, sustaining, restoring and modernizing plan.........etc are needed. There is a challenging urgency to prevent the skill and brain drain.
You must first get involved in the local community when you leave high school. Do some construction, clean some streets, cut some bush, volunteer at a service club, hook up with a local company at entry level, start a micro business. After a year or so, if you see the need THEN you go overseas to study. Because you have built your local bridges, it will be much easier when you come back with the paper.