Would Prefer hiring a fresher or a trained fresher ?

Mr. Al Walsh you are absolutely right when you say that a company is better off if they decide to hire and train a fresher. because as you said they can be moulded easily according to company's requirements and moreover as they are new to the corporate world they are most likely to agree with you rather than disagree.

today no employer is prepared to take risk with a fresher or spend any time in their training. employers want performers from dayone. at the same time i have also noticed that employers are also looking to hire people from the same trade for reasons of better safety. it is pathetic that HR Managers are not prepared to analyse and identify skills available across the industry

Thanks for the inputs, few things on which I want your attention:

1) If we hire trained fresher we reduce the training cost, they get trained with the right technology and also get aware about reporting etiquettes which is also one of the important aspect in corporate, the same takes time to be induced in a fresher. (I am not quite sure as to how many organizations train on reporting front.)

2) I do agree that we can mould freshers the way we want and can get maximum out of them, but at the same time I would like to see the cost incurred to train a candidate. (We spent = training cost + time + infrastructure + salaries of these unproductive resources)

3) Trained candidates are productive in short time period than a fresher who will be productive after (say around) 4-6 months of training.

4) Trained candidates are more adaptive to acquire any technology as their basics concepts are very well groomed and tested.

5) Freshers who are trained (in organization) expects an appraisal after a year from their joining, however they are less productive in first 4-6 months and expects good appraisal on 6 months productivity. (Consider that the appraisal is done on yearly basis.)

6) Trained candidaes are having a lot of energy as they get an opportunity to proof their abilities and performance instantly after joining.

7) Its entrusted that organization policies, rules & regulation are made considering all professionals of all level & hence I do believe that policies of any organization are the best who can bind any employee for a longer & productive relationship.

8) Every technically skilled person is the assest of the organization and we take care of the employee the most, hence any trained fresher with best technical skills will be important for any organization.

9) It is a competetive world and every organization wants best technical people in their fleet  irrespective of the fact that someone is a fresher or an experienced professional.

One more important thing to take care is :

1) We instruct our internal trainers about the kind of training to be provided to all freshers and we end up spending a good amount of money, the same can be instructed to an training provider vendor which will train candidates as per our need and then we can hire from that pool.

2) We end up saving training cost, & get number of options from which we can select the best fitting individual.

Let me know your thoughts on the above explaination.

This is a common problem in all companies. If Companies take freshers & train them for 8-9 months. There is a possibility that they leave them. So all investment goes in vein & if you consider trained freshers also they are hard to get in terms of exact company requirements. It would be preferable to take freshers & mould them as per the company requirements & keep them motivated to stay with the company...