Today's youths will prove their mettle

Barely a couple of years after the first batch of post-1990s graduates entered the job market, almost all studies on their work attitude and aspirations suggest that the average young graduate is a spoilt brat who is either unwilling or unable to hold onto a job for longer than a few months.

The results of these studies have, in turn, touched off a flurry of reports and comments in the media and on the Internet where finger-wagging commentators have lamented the loss of traditional work ethics and expressed fears that the achievements of economic growth of the past 30-odd years could be wasted on the new generation.

One headline of a recent news report screamed: "Post-90 graduate changed jobs seven times in two years". Another read: "38 percent of all post-90 workers changed jobs at least once in six months".