What is true for Deloitte's highly skilled workforce is also be true for many entry-level employees when employers find that without further investment in training, these workers lack the skills to do rudimentary work.
"Unpaid interns are becoming the modern-day equivalent of entry-level employees, except that employers are not paying them for the many hours they work," said Adam Klein, one of the lawyers for Ms. Wang.
Many employers had objected to the Wyden provision, saying it would increase their costs by allowing younger and healthier entry-level employees to opt out of employer-sponsored plans.
Its annual Top Entry Level Employer survey serves as the basis for the rankings, in which participants provide their entry-level, intern and master's hiring projections for the upcoming year.
At least one factor driving this shift is employer's expectations that even entry-level employees can handle problem-solving tasks within their domain.
One of the things she saw was a mismatch between the kinds of customer service and entry-level skills employers wanted to see with new and untested hires.
As many of the challenges faced by millennials stem from their inability to land good entry-level jobs with employers like Techtonic's clients, this model provides an appealing and scalable faster + cheaper pathway. .
For even an entry-level position, she says employers require a minimum of two years of work experience.
She earns a comparatively high salary for an entry-level job, and her employer offers incentive bonuses, free meals and shuttle service.
Employers need entry-level professionals to be able to hit the ground running with the skills and knowledge to immediately contribute - as employers no longer have the budgets or time to get recent grads up to speed.
