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Sat in on my nephew's community college career fair in Dayton and the advice booth was a joke
I tagged along with my nephew to a career fair at Sinclair Community College in Dayton last month, and the main advice booth had one lady handing out a photocopied sheet about dressing nice and firm handshakes. That was it. Twenty kids in line with real questions about pay and which trades are hiring, and the handout did not even mention how to ask about wages. My nephew wants to get into HVAC, and he got more useful info from a 60 year old guy running a booth for a local union than from the booth paid to help him. I run my own house cleaning business, so I hire people, and I know for a fact that most of these kids will take the first offer they get. If the school is going to run a career fair, the advice booth should be the one booth that actually tells you what you are worth. Am I wrong for thinking schools should teach kids to negotiate instead of how to smile?
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piperwhite19d ago
Handshake advice is worthless. Teach them to ask for more money.
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