For my SGMA (Strategy and Global Management) Class we're supposed to read news articles about business and what not so that we know what's going on in the world of business and how political things affect business (I find this completely interesting, but since I assume not everyone's a political/economical geek like I am, I'll cut the description off there). Anyways, so I was looking through newspapers to find business articles (kind of, I was mostly looking for Sudoku puzzles that I hadn't already done) and I found one that caught my attention and it had to do with K-Pop and business structures, and if you're anything like me you're thinking how the heck...? So I read the article and it touched on, to me, what seemed like common sense even though I had never thought that before; instead of looking for talent, firms should create talent.
Now before I expand on this, we need to back track a little. So near the beginning of the Fall semester, a guy came into m Econ class and gave a quick speech on College Pro, which is, if you haven't heard of it before, a painting franchise that helps college kids run their own business in a way that practically fail safe because they use a method that has worked for the past 50 years or something. Anyways, so that really caught my attention because I want to run my own business one day and thought this would be a great help/start. I went through the long interview process and got accepted. I felt very pressured to do it and because of that pressure, I bailed too close to starting time, I know, but I had to think through staying or leaving a ton.
But that's kind of a sob story that's beside the point; when I was in the interview process, the guy interviewing me said that a lot of kids have degrees nowadays, but no one has work experience so they don't get hired, and I could believe that, because even for me I have a hard time getting a part time waitressing job because the economy for one, and because restaurants seem to think, if you're not a professional, you're not good enough. So instead of hiring a fresh, energetic, ready-to-work, poor university student, they hire an "experienced" 40 some year old bag lady to bitterly wait tables (I probably milked that too much, but it's all about dramatic effect right? ...Right?). People should be hired out of potential, not experience, because experience turns into routine, and people with potential are fresh minds with fresh ideas. Finding people with talent instead of creating talent is honestly a lazy way to employ people, in my opinion.
To end on a more positive and only slightly related note, I wanted to repeat what my dance teacher said on the first day of class and that is to "never take learning seriously" and that's not a direct quote, but that's the main idea in the best way I could describe it. It resonated with me because I honestly take nothing seriously, and people who take me seriously will have a very flawed perception of me. But learning is no fun if you're only serious about it, and if you try to hard to learn something, you miss out on the learning part of it. Plus seriousness is not fun, and if you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.
Also, here's a complimentary picture of the sunset tonight:
