The way they are proceeding is to confront the recruiters to do their job and say where the positions going. Are we in a "let's not use juniors" phase, or is it truly from junior colleges. If it is the former, then to get the word out to seniors to use their influence to double up with juniors as a package to get more junior brought it. It has worked before. I talk with the recruiters and convey our dismay which I hope they convey to the employers that many seniors travel with juniors and that is where they get their replacements for little cost. Junior college programs, if subsidized by the industry cost tons of money and like all bean counters, the companies expect results. Juniors who train and pass the NUF on their own cost them nothing once they are trained on the sites. Juniors who travel with seniors have people they can get advice from. It is a system that has worked for thousands of years, the senior experienced person training the junior.
If it is truly someone has a hairbrained scheme to favor college locals and subsidize them and ignore the junior pool, there are not enough house positions to handle the flood of people applying for utilities and when they do not either get the job or are cut the free market will fix that problem. In spite of how great you may feel the junior college programs are, from a senior perspective, the subject matter is so slim most of the ex-navy could challege every test in a college program and pass, not saying much for the college. If you have been to college, you know in the junior levels it is little more intense then high school. Hardly something you wish to depend on if you are trying to rebuild and industry.
What is my strategy for them? First, they have been very loyal to Bartlett and taken the trash positions where nobody else wanted on short notice. They have a track record of dependability. We will naturally use that to get at least some guilt going to insure they are doing their best. Next, as a senior of many years, I have been helping them understand their job and all the small parts of it. If Bartlett will not get them jobs, we expand to other recruiters to get their name out. My oldest daughter is nearly a senior, maybe she will go for a long term position.
If there are no opportunities, we go into something else but not without a fight. We have time on our side and very patient. If the college thing is unproductive, I will personally get involved if I have the evidence to let the companies know, I know how to research. They are not monolithic beings stuck on their own destruction. If other word, what will we do? We will do what is necessary to help them, and if we help a whole lot of other juniors along the way, all the better.