We Can't All Win

Written by Andrew Wilkin

So the exam results have come out for the year, and once again grades have improved. With almost 70% achieving a grade of C or above. Really there can only be three things possibly happening here, either the exams are getting easier, our younger generation are getting cleverer, or we are now teaching to the exams rather than the subject.

The interesting thing is that there is now so little to distinguish one from another in terms of exam results we talk of A* grades as a higher calibre. What does this mean for them when they look for jobs, which are in short supply for people who are young without experience, how will an employer be able to decide which candidates to see for the role?

I was talking about this very subject with a recruitment consultant friend of mine just the other day, certain skills have been off-shored for the first and second line. Consequently there is now a shortage of people rising through the ranks to get the experience (consider it like not having a training academy or lower league teams in football). All of which is having an upward pressure on salaries for those select few that got the experience before the off-shoring craze went into swing - And keeps out the younger generation from even getting on the career ladder.

We can't all win (unless your in network marketing of course) as in the corporate world there needs to be distinguishing factors for people to get ahead. What will the younger generation do to distinguish themselves, a degree - but everyone is doing that. My advice to people would be that while you need the core qualifications as everybody else has, you have to go pick up a set of skills that mark you out. Network Marketing with the right team is one cheap way of getting the training from others who have already been round the block in life.

One of the things that opened my eyes to this recently was the benefit for leveraging your upline and their downline for resources. I needed a venue for an event, traditional route yellow pages and google and a lot of haggling, network marketing route - ask your team - how cool is that?