What happened to “entry-level positions” and “0n-the-job training”?  Back in the day, when I graduated from college, companies, including many big name companies would come to campus and offer “entry-level positions”.  An entry-level position was your foot in the door for a potentially solid career.  Entry-level positions offered you not only a job, but it also provided you with the opportunity to learn about the company and its various facets and positions from the ground up.  It also involved on-the job training where someone who does the the job actually teaches you the in’s and out’s of the job and the company.  You were not expected to know everything prior to being hired.  The company invested time and training in you.  As a result of these experiences the employees became committed and invested in the company doing well.  Many of my cohorts are currently in senior level management positions due to their start in an entry-level position. The only position that I believe is currently comparable to an entry-level position today is an “internship”.  However internships are limited, usually unpaid and offer only the slightest promise of a permanent position at its end.  It seems today that employers want everything from young people with little promise of anything in return.  They have to be the top in their class at college to even be offered a position (or an internship) and they have to have state-of-the-art knowledge and demonstrated skills in their field as well as in social media and technology.  Where does the on-the-job training come in?  It sounds like the company is getting a pretty good package from the start.  Recently I read that a trend with employers is to hire employees with more advanced degrees then they have in the past.  For example a position that requires a bachelor’s degree in the past would now be required to have a master’s degree; a high school degree position would be required to have a bachelor’s degree and so on.  The reason they cited for this trend was the employers desire to ensure they are getting a state-of-the-art- skill set.  Once again, I would like to ask what happened to “entry-level positions” and “on-the-job training”?  Stupid Things Young People do and Have to Endure!