In a letter to the editor, Angela Collins of Paris bemoans the fact that high school graduates can't seem to get jobs at the factories in Paris because they have no line experience. But I fear Angela's problem goes a bit deeper than that. Her letter demonstrates a woeful lack in our educational system.
I must assume that she is a graduate since that's how she begins her letter: "Why is it that when students who graduate from high school, who want to get a good paying job where we the pay is steady -- like some of our local industries -- in order to get an application we have to have six months line experience just to get the job." If her verbal skills are no better than her writing skills, the personnel department probably didn't understand that she was asking for an employment application.
"How are we suppose (sic) to get the experience," she asks. Well, your problem is stated in your run-on opening sentence. You want a "good paying" job. Those usually come later, dear. First, you usually have to take the cruddy jobs at the bottom of the ladder and prove your worth. Especially in this economy, a factory is not going to give a green 18-year-old high school graduate (especially one with such poor communication skills) a job of great responsibility. Those jobs must be earned.
"Experience needed." The Paris News; June 28, 2010; p. 4.
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I would be willing to bet that isn't the only issue involved her inability to land a job. She probably dressed inappropriately as well. I had a job applicant come into our store the other day in a nasty (really nasty) over-sized tank top, saggy shorts, slinging a water bottle around, asking about the application he submitted earlier. The ONLY thing he had going for him was the fact he actually came back to check on it!
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