The future of work requires a return to apprenticeships
>But if you put the intelligent, intuitive individual on the factory floor or trading floor to learn the complex supply chain and shadow the most skilled in the business, then you not only give them a well-paying job with growth potential, but you also give them the bespoke skillset to flourish in the role and the industry.<p>>This model isn’t new. It’s apprenticeship<p>This model is the existing model for every new graduate who starts a job today. Any new hire in a decent company is going to be getting taught the industry skills from more senior members of the team. Plenty of companies have mentoring programmes. The fact they have a degree which provides the basic mathematical and theoretical pre-requisites for their job doesn't mean they turn up at Google on day one and are expected to sink or swim. Even beyond that, plenty of companies provide new college graduate schemes where you rotate through the business.<p>I just don't understand what this article is bringing to the table that's new, other than maybe informing us that some Swiss banks were failing to run their business properly for a while.