Useful Job Advice From The 1960s (Helpful - Sort Of!)
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- The job market is nothing like it was in 1960 when this help film was made. I think there are a few decent bits of advice and it gives a sense for what it was like back then. I saw this film in high school.
In 1960 the United States was experiencing a period of economic prosperity. The 1950s and early 1960s are called the "post-war economic boom" or the "Golden Age of Capitalism." The economy was characterized by strong economic growth, low unemployment rates, and rising living standards.
Job opportunities were relatively abundant. The demand for labor was high, and unemployment rates were generally low, hovering around 5% or lower for most of the year.
High school graduates had opportunities to secure stable, well-paying jobs in manufacturing industries, such as automotive, steel, and electronics. Factory work and assembly line jobs were common for those with a high school diploma.
College graduates, especially those with bachelor's degrees were typically in high demand. They had access to a wider range of professional careers in fields like engineering, teaching, healthcare, and business management.
The manufacturing sector played a significant role in the job market. Factories and manufacturing plants were a major source of employment, and these jobs provided relatively good wages and benefits for workers.
Skilled trades such as carpentry, plumbing and electrical work offered stable employment opportunities and a pathway to a prosperous career for those who completed apprenticeships or vocational training programs.
Gender roles were more traditional in the workforce, with many women primarily working in clerical or administrative positions. The job market for women was limited in comparison to today, with fewer opportunities for women in leadership roles or STEM careers.
Racial segregation and discrimination were pervasive in the job market during this era particularly in the southern United States. African Americans faced significant barriers to accessing well-paying jobs and were often relegated to lower-wage, less desirable positions.
Today?
College graduates typically earned higher salaries compared to those with only a high school diploma. The wage gap between college-educated individuals and high school graduates was more pronounced than it is today.
A college degree often provided greater job stability and opportunities for career advancement. Many college-educated individuals could secure long-term employment with good benefits.
A college education was a common pathway to professions such as teaching, engineering, accounting, and healthcare, where advanced knowledge and training were essential.
College enrollment rates were lower in the 1960s compared to today. Not as high a percentage of the population pursued a college degree, so the job market was less saturated with college graduates.
While a college degree was advantageous, there were viable alternative pathways to well-paying jobs. Skilled trades, factory work, and manufacturing jobs provided stable employment for high school graduates.
The job market of the 1960s had a stronger emphasis on manufacturing and industrial sectors, which offered employment opportunities for individuals without college degrees.
Gender roles were more traditional, with certain professions and industries being less accessible to women. The opportunities for women in STEM fields or leadership roles were more limited.
The demand for college graduates was strong, but the landscape of the job market was different from today, with a smaller percentage of the population pursuing higher education. The value of a college degree has evolved over time and today, it often plays an even more critical role in securing employment and career advancement in a broader range of industries and professions.
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Nowadays there's often so much administrative detachement that you have silly stuff like the software's creator being denied a job because they don't have enough experience with it, since they created it 1 and a half year ago and the job required 3 years experience.
This is an idealized job hunting, it didn’t really work like this, at least not in my circle of friends and acquaintances. Usually people who found the best jobs did so with help from family or a friend. Without that, it was probably restaurant work or the military. Lucky me, I did all three.
Old videos are way more concise and helpful than today. Everything now is about numbers and funding. They don't teach you the simple tips and tricks or instill confidence in kids these days.
Yeah especially technical videos, they're often very good at going from 0 to a decent grasp of the topic.
There's good videos today too tbh, but these instructional videos are still often more grokable. Though that's probably a bias of the good ones being the ones that stay (i.e. survivor bias)
Read the older sales books Zig Ziglar, Carnegie some NLP so you know what Edward Bernay’s was about
Even an old video like this can be helpful for todays use, persistence, research, being thorough and showing some knowledge of the field you want to get into is always a good thing. Explore every avenue
Exactly, and today we have limitless information about available positions and company information.
When was the last time you searched for a job? Because I dont think we are living in the same era...
@@0037kevin there is nothing in here that wouldnt help a young job seeker
Fun fact: The drummer for Primus, Tim Alexander, got his job with the band when his mom told him to just look up studios in the phone book. He thought she was crazy old fashioned, but nothing else had worked so he gave it a try - and voila.
One of my 1st jobs was at a McDonald's, just off of an Interstate, I was a "maintenance worker" (janitor) 3rd shift I made $3.35hr back then (mid 1980s) around 11.30pm they locked you inside the store to work your shift until a manager showed up at 5.30am, I remember being told that if a fire occurs to just "take a chair and break a window out!!" Geez! Thankfully I never had to do that! Imo it wasn't an ideal job, even back then, but in retrospect it certainly helped prepare me for future employment! Thanks David, for a very interesting video clip✌
Such a nice reminder of how things could be for our youth now. Can you imagine if half the kids today who do not really want to go to college, never use their degrees and wouldn't have to be in debt for the rest of their lives if they were encouraged in this way?
Too bad boomer draft dodgers built the college industrial complex we know and loathe today.
High School decided I might like to be a banker. Went to a number of them but it was a bit to formal ... decided on construction instead.
Just be yourself, Ed. ❤
I wish we would stop giving this terrible advice to kids and just say what we really mean ie. "I have confidence in you." To quote Franz Kafka "I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face." My life has been so much easier when I realized that most people do not want to have deep, meaningful relationships because that would require being emotionally vulnerable. They want safe and shallow relationships that are usually only temporary.
Too cool. 😎 I remember jobs in the newspaper 🗞️. I would say that was the real way of doing business 👨💼. I have gotten jobs that way. Thanks for sharing David Hoffman.
The job market today is a joke. You need a degree, 3 years experience, and a sacrifice for the blood alter to get an entry level job. The blood sacrifice doesnt even guarantee you an interview!
Have you considered being more concise but thorough in the answers you provide on their questionnaires?
Millenials aren't kids any more. They are reaching mid 40s
Yeah millennial's kids are already past college.
@@canadajim 🤔 now I'm confused
The oldest Millennials are already 44 year olds. The media still talks about them like they are teenagers though.
Yeah I'm on the tail end, and I'm 30 soon.
I’ll add that Boomers are currently 60 and up, and Gen X (me) is 59 down to Millennial (I think).
This film clip take me back to when I first started job hunting.in the late 1970's for my first job I didn't have a set of wheels at the time I need to find a job I could walk or ride my bike or take public transit bus to, my first job was washing dishes at a local restaurant that I was able to save up for a used car and have more independents without bumming a ride from a friend. love these old educational films from the 1940's 50's and 60's Thanks David Hoffman,
This about get a job that will pay well, if you want a good paying job you need a college degree, or you can just get a regular job that only requires a highschool degree. Thanks for sharing this help video, something you would see in grade school. 📸👍
Tell that to all my friends with Masters Degrees that are struggling not to be homeless. Its not like that anymore, the job market is wrecked!
Tbh I know more plumbers and electricians who are well payed than guys with a master's.
Two days ago, Fox Business published an article about my state's hiring website titled "Massachusetts focuses on skills-based hiring, eliminates college degree requirements for about 90 percent of jobs."
@@smallisbeautiful2808A novel idea hiring on skills who would of thought it
Given the youngest millennial is 28 and probably figured out job interviews by now, perhaps this is better advice for zoomers.
😂 thank you😂
The oldest "millennials" are 40
I'm mid-career, almost 43 (HS Class of 99) and people say I am a millennial.
@@malcorubAt 43, you're probably an X-ennial
Imagine being able to get into the door without a 4 year degree and job experience. I think this video was filmed in the 1950s, considering her hair style, but it was likely shown to kids in the 1960s. I can just see my dad rolling his eyes while watching this in the late 60s or early 70s. It's not groovy enough, man. 😅
One thing about these videos that fascinates me is that there always have been and always will be children, young adults, older adults and elders, but which one you get to be changes over time. To think that young starry-eyed kid would be a very old man now, if he's lucky enough to still be alive.
What a nice cool way to say that! ❤
solid tips but not sure how useful they'd be for those in their early 20s; for instance, a 23-year old inner city girl had a job for 3 years but was let go because she forgot to call out one day. She's.applied online to many fast food restaurants and were given an interview slot. But the interview only consisted of filling out an application and waiting for a callback that never comes. The fast food places are run by Spanish or Indian people; she's a light skinned A. A. Sad. She's been out of work for 9 months now after working full time for 3 years.
Thank you David. 💓
Back then, employers were willing to give anyone a chance to prove themselves. Nowadays, it's all about favoritism.
How are you so sure that's the way it was back in 1960? Where you at least 16 years old back then?
@@yearginclarke When you say labor job, what do you mean exactly? Forklift driver? Dock worker? Or retail worker?
Millennials are on their second Great Depression and third Vietnam. Old metrics don't apply.
Yes!
And dude can I say I fkin love your name. It speaks to the pit of my soul
We are giving you a hard time but we still love these videos:) Trying times these days.
A grim fact of the era, "half the population would be killed, crippled, or hospitalized at some time in their life span, in an automobile accident". Seat belts weren't standard accessories until about 1967, and seat belt laws being passed and enforced by the mid 1980s.
perfect
Ive made quite a bit from "distributing" myself. Im moving up to wholesale, although, most of my clients arent in the phone book...ah the American Dream.
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Man! When he got the job! So exciting! ❤. Thank you 😊😢
So many don’t look to the enormity of jobs on government state, federal and local… Wish there were more private company employment out there off shoring did a real number on the economy
Dang, that marital status checkbox lol
it was next year Ed found himself in the jungles of Vietnam...
How grown up young people where then, funny if you filmed people of same age today I know we would be shocked....maybe clever in diffent ways💚
Now,what do you do when they need 2 years of exp but no job in said field will hire you because you have none of exp the field looks for and the same small place that you need the exp from (that’s in the same field) are ONLY hiring tenured people,but won’t hire you because you don’t have said exp that you need to get hired at the big place.
It’s not as simple as this video shows anymore,you can’t just walk in and ask for a job.
Ive never understood my own gen x generation, theres much we can reincorporate from our past that mainly brought us here to begin with
Im for various of our culture and so on but thats as for that, my generation and its culture has always come off OVER the top i can get if its about reintegrating cultural ways, but.........
You oughta do video summations of what youve come away with after all of this
Sorry. I am not clear what you are suggesting I do a video about.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Lol they are adults man late thirties early forties. I hope you meant this as a joke. I have millennial friends with masters degrees struggling to get a slightly higher than minimum wage job. I have friends who are on the verge of homelessness some are homeless who worked FULL TIME
And I get it, if it's a joke it's humorous to you, but this is the same stuff they here from mean boomers who call them lazy while they work themselves to death and have thousands in student debt 😢😢
Yeah I have a friend who has a master of biology and he converted to preschool assistant, because he couldn't find a job in his field or adjacent fields.
This seems like a spoof! If there is any reality in this life was so easy back then
80's military OJT, don't know about present day.
😂
Bezos really took this to heart
I mistakenly thought this would be advice for girls.
It was intended for both genders but most women had very limited opportunities during those times.
David Hoffman filmmaker
And nowadays there are millennials taking their parents to interviews...
Is this true?
@@MicahScottPnD Apparently. There was a report that mentioned this, and that they don't have the interpersonal skills to get through interviews, bad eye contact, etc., and that employers are opting for hiring older and over-experienced people.
@@chesterproudfoot9864 That's pretty interesting, thanks!