> Gen Z's focus on extracurricular activities to boost their college competitiveness rather than gaining job experience has led to "unrealistic expectations" about the workplace and how to deal with their bosses.<p>ROFL! Students did all the things companies said were the right things to get hired, and now the companies are complaining about the result. And they want to blame the students?<p>The last 40 years companies have said that they need more college-educated people - that is, young adults need go into massive debt to train themselves for a career, rather than having the company pay for on-the-job training.<p>So they did that, which means out-competing all the other students who want to get into the upper-level schools which companies want to hire from.<p>Of <i>course</i> that means they don't have job experience. If companies want people with job experience, they need to pay real wages for internships and apprentices.<p>> Around six in ten companies included in the survey reported firing a recent university graduate they hired this year.<p>Did I read that right that if they hired 100 people and fired one, that would be included in this statistic.<p>> also reported that some of their Gen Z workers struggled to manage their workload, were frequently late, and did not dress or speak appropriately<p>Umm, they made the same comments about Gen X workers.