What explains these differences? What makes a country with the enormous potential of ours present such a performance always down? Simplifying, but without ceasing to be sufficiently assertive, we could say that the most accurate explanation comes precisely from those ideas that many times, as we stated at the beginning, are excessively marked by our own myths.
In this same sense, it has been a week since social networks, even some more “serious” ones like the one dedicated to the world of employment, are full of memesnotes and “brainy” opinions that unceremoniously affirm that Lionel Scaloni, the successful coach of our wonderful soccer team, has triumphed without having experience. And from there, from that same exhaustive assertion, deduce that asking for previous experience in a resume professional is almost a kind of affront that scares away many other potential talents from having the opportunity to win, in each field in question, the equivalent “world cup” that is at stake.
Yes, as the reader will already deduce, that is how a new creole myth.
As in so many other Argentine issues, the situation hides the underlying issue. The multiplication of this type of publication does nothing other than account for a labor market that is not very dynamic, which translates into few job opportunities. good ones jobs. Which, in turn, generates a favorable tendency for the barriers to enter the market to be increasingly higher and for the frustration of young people to multiply.
In the same way, but already oriented to the central point of this note, the stream of publications that applaud (although wrongly, as I will try to demonstrate) that Scaloni has been given a similar opportunity, a supposed “inexperienced technician”, reflects another great myth rooted in our lands, and it is the one that maintains that the education system is enough when it comes to providing the necessary skills so that a graduate may have the opportunity to develop successfully in the professional world.
To tell the truth, the presumption is understandable. If compulsory schooling in Argentina (initial, primary and middle school) forces young people to remain in school for an average of 14 years of their lives, it is not arbitrary for them and their families to assume that when they leave they are ready to develop professionally. Much less so when they themselves and those same families tend to invest even in an average of between 4 and 6 more years of higher education, with all the effort that this implies.
Still, sadly for everyone, that’s a false assumption.
More than a decade ago, working in a public organization oriented towards education, I had an enlightening dialogue with a businessman with whom we were trying to carry out an internship agreement; an initiative that many years anticipated what would later become the compulsory labor internship program in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
At that time we were trying to get the businessman in question to provide his facilities so that students who were being trained in trades could gain experience. In the middle of the meeting, one of my companions, nourished exclusively by the logic of a teacher, asked the businessman if he would be willing to pay a small symbolic sum to stimulate the student. He does not! of that entrepreneur was as forceful as his subsequent argument, to the point that that Graduate in Education was even convinced, even though he was full of all the prejudices about the private world that said career usually brings with it.
A student (and the same is true for a graduate) who enters a workplace without any prior experience is more of a problem than a solution and for the employer it is, therefore, more of a cost than a benefit.. And this is not only because of the supplies that you are likely to ruin as you acquire your practice and the necessary insurance so that an accident does not result in an insane lawsuit for the company, but also because of the countless number of rules Y procedures that a labor sphere has and that a student (or graduate) does not know. This set of knowledge is what constitutes, settles and gives reality to the concept of “employability”, understood by RAE as the “set of skills and attitudes that allow a person to get and keep a job”.
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As many of us who have had the fortune to become professionals today know, adjusting to a workplace is a long, tortuous road, full of errors, frustrations and conflicts that cannot be resolved with a mere introductory talk or with a “manual”. . That’s why The idea that a job internship is really a type of “hidden labor exploitation” can only arise in the feverish minds of those who have never successfully navigated the world of work.. On the contrary, the only beneficiary of being granted such an opportunity is the one who lacks said employability and is willing to obtain it.
In this sense, those who promote the idea of an “inexperienced” Scaloni are unaware (or choose to be unaware) that this great 44-year-old Argentine coach:
- He made his debut at the Newell’s Old Boys Athletic Club in 1995 at the age of 16.
- At the age of 18, he transferred his career to Estudiantes de La Plata where he was considered by José Nestor Pérkeman for the Under 20 National Team.
- In 1997 he was part of the youth champion team in the Malaysian Cup, after which he migrated as a professional player to La Coruña, Spain.
- In the 1998-1999 season he was champion of the Spanish League.
- In the 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 seasons, he was runner-up in the same league (among many other successes in it).
- He retired as a professional soccer player in 2015, after a 20-year career he continues.
- Before retiring, he began his studies to formalize his knowledge as a technical director. In 2016 he joined Sevilla in Spain as assistant coach, led by Jorge Sampaoli.
- In 2017 he was also incorporated by Sampaoli as an assistant in the National Soccer Team.
- In August 2018 he assumed as coach of the national team.
As the reader may notice, by the time he had his opportunity as a coach for the national team, Lionel Scaloni had 23 uninterrupted years in his work context.thereby acquiring a huge percentage of employability that has allowed him to take advantage of his later studies as a technician. The latter, together with his undeniable natural talent and the fabulous team that he was able to put together, have allowed him to achieve the feat that he finally achieved. As the reader may also notice, there are multiple factors that allowed for this conquest and none of these allow Scaloni to be described as “an inexperienced technician”.
At the beginning we spoke of the negative course that our country has shown in recent decades. May this note serve to illustrate the imperious, urgent, obvious need, and at this dramatic point, for us to listen to the warnings that Juan Bautista Alberdi was able to make to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in due time, and understand sooner rather than later that This endogamic, artificial, ancient and stagnant educational system that we flaunt as one of our myths, must open up to its convergence with the world of real employment right nowso that the millions of young people who graduate from it do so already endowed with that employability necessary for then to claim the labor market to give them the opportunity they think they have after so much effort.
Source: Ambito
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