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Breezy Yelton
Ms Knight
English 1050
December 1, 2017
Opportunity Slip-up?
As the world changes and the workplace evolves, job requirements for young adults and
the need of employers are drastically changing as well. Millennials must learn what to do to
better prepare themselves, as well as the generations to come. Young adults want to be a
competitor and they want to add an edge to them that will keep the employers interested. The
first step is realizing what the issue is. In this case, it is how automation and outsourcing have
changed the workforce and how it has become more difficult for citizens to land a stable job. The
next step is knowing what to do about it: Young adults must have the right set of skills and
mindsets employers are looking for, if they are receiving the right set of education, and knowing
what type of jobs are on high demand.
The biggest challenge we face in finding a job today, is automation. How is one supposed
to make a good living when jobs are being swept from right underneath people by robots? In
Claire Cain Miller’s article, “The Long-Term Jobs Killer is Not China. Its Automation,” she
states that “economists say the biggest threat to peoples’ job has been automation. There is no
clear way to stop it” (Miller). Robots are always polite, always on time and there is never a
discrimination slip up on their part. However, Abby Joseph Cohen remarks in her writing of
“The last 8 years of market improvement have been disturbingly uneven,” that the “increased use
of technology is causing major shifts in the interactions with customers and how workers do their
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jobs” (Joseph Cohen). There have been distinct transformations in many job departments.
However, over time, automation has had a generally positive impact. Automation has removed
jobs and created more, but automation does leave the first generation of workers it has taken the
role of in a desperate position, because they most likely do not have the skills to do new and
more complex tasks (Miller). To add to Millers statement, in “Millennials are Struggling to Get
Jobs- Here’s Why, And What To Do About It,” Larry Alton states “the modern American
workplace needs millennials to gain experience and replace the previous generations positions in
the line of work” (Alton). Whether the changes are liked or not, they are a necessary evil to jobs.
Millennials must get used to it and boost knowledge, as well as involvement; this is especially
important in today’s society as jobs are being outsourced.
The growing problem for the upcoming generations of workers may not be the lack of
