Caught this from one of my favorite sites: “Colleges not training students to growing fields“. It’s interesting to me because on NPR this morning (DC) there was a guy talking about the lose of jobs due to computers vs. the oil rig fiasco in the Gulf.
Either way, he proposed, out of work American’s should get vouchers to go to school, get life coaching, trade schooling, certificates, etc. because “an individual knows better what to do in order to find work” than some government agency. I’m not proposing the opposite, but it seems to me that sometimes the individual doesn’t or can’t really know what job or career path they should be pursuing. Passion is one thing, but getting knocked out of a job due to IT integrations doesn’t necessarily mean that the person had a good fix on what they wanted to do before either.
I’m all for developing the out of work workforce, but guidance is a necessary endeavor (there’s a reason the 50s/60s had such a high focus on math, science and engineering; and it wasn’t individually driven. It was a national goal).
Just saying.