People train after being hired.
I’m a software developer. At this point maybe 10% or less of what I do is what I learned from college. What makes me valuable right now is what I’ve learned from working at my company for a few years and all of the very specific knowledge about its internal processes.
My college couldn’t teach me that because some of it’s considered confidential by the company. So when I was hired, it was based on more general things I could do and the assumption that I could learn the specifics of the company very fast.
That’s how most “skilled” jobs are. There are some basic skills needed that you can learn outside of the job, but most of what you need to know has to be taught after you’re hired. A lot of people scoff at factory work being “skilled”, but most of them would be maimed in a horrible accident if they tried it without training.
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