Hi Ajay
Your point is valid... to an extent...
However, I see many situations where employer's place graduates in jobs that aren't their core skills. I see situations where the 'sink or swim' approach is common and a member could be the HR person on one place and told you need to "reskill" as the Finance at the next site.
Is this right/ethical/fair? - I'm of two minds. But more it comes back down to that life is not always fair. Sometimes you need to take so long as you don't steal.
I see members who graduate with business degrees are placed in more technical roles compare to me with my IT degree. Should they have said no to the technical role even though they now excel and considered to be an expert now?
I see people follow Richard's Branson's mantra (say yes to opportunity and figure it out later). Is this a bad approach? Again, I'm of two minds. Sometimes an employer putting you into a role is due to seeing skills that you can develop. The approach in how you move to such roles determines a bit of the ethics behind it and whether you take a stand. Then other times, they made a sale without considering their core capabilities and you've been thrown in the deep end with a stick/carrot incentive to figure it out.
The more I am on SCN and part of this community, the more I am relaxing some of my judgement of people in jobs out of their depth. I by no means think the person has zero responsibility in how they go there. And I still gets frustrated to see untrained people making decision/changes on SAP systems. However, if such members are here (esp under a real name) admitting they are struggling and keen to improve then it's a great start. There is little value in pointing out to the person a conclusion they have already drawn.
It's why on such threads like these, my encouragement to the member is to improve business knowledge. As a trainer, would you have a different recommendation to offer?
Regards
Colleen