Richard

UK

Designer

Why don't companies use their own trainees?

Why do companies hire expensive trainees from "consultancies" rather than using their own trainees: Who would probably produce the same answers, but much more cheaply and learn the business in the process.

As a young trainee, I was tasked with proposing the reorganisation of a department:

Regardless of the value of my proposals, I quickly learnt many sharp lessons about:

- Employee relations;
- Importance of involving the affected staff;
- Folly of imposing change from above;
- That things are often more complicated that they appear to outsiders.
- etc. etc.

Thanks to the tolerance of the staff affected, "improvements" were negotiated and accepted.

I emerged (slightly) less conceited and (slightly) wiser.