It is unfortunate that so many graduates find difficulty acquiring jobs in their fields of study due to lack of experience, those specifically who had no internship or on-the-job training options or who could not participate in such programs for whatever reasons.
...I did not have this problem as a business clerical trainee at the Atlanta Job Corps because OJT was offered for my cluster at the center where I trained. After completing my studies, which included learning to type, data entry, writing business letters, answering business phones, and subsequently graduating from Atlanta Metropolitan College* via Job Corps's Advanced Career Training program, I interned as a receptionist answering the center switchboard for a specified number of weeks, which made getting my first full-time job as a receptionist a breeze...
Some form of on-the-job-training was offered for most if not all trades at the AJCC, which facilitated job placement for graduates (*My degree from Atlanta Metropolitan College is an AA in Philosophy, which substantially helped to develop my critical thinking skills and my Microsoft skills via a computer science course).
...Graded and/or paid internships at real companies provide real experience that employers can appreciate, and they should be available for all educational/training programs. No one should be delayed an additional six months to a year or whatever length of experience is required to get to work in an industry in which they have trained for months or years...
Internships for specific programs should be whatever length of time is essential to acquire an entry-level job and reasonable pay in the industry. It is essentially impossible otherwise to acquire experience where no opportunity is provided without it.
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