In our survey, nearly 70% of employers blamed inadequate training for the shortfall in skilled workers, yet 70% of education providers believe they suitably prepare graduates for the jobs market. Similarly, employers complain that less than half of the young whom they hire have adequate problem-solving skills, yet nearly two-thirds of the young believe that they do have such skills. The situation is such that nearly 60% of young people around the world say they would pay more for an education that would improve the likelihood of securing an attractive job; and 70% of employers say they would pay more for the right talent, if only they could find it.
What do they call that? A market? I'm old, it's late. I must be crazy.
/johnny
That’s the problem, by the time these young people are old enough to be polled and asked whether they would pay more for an education it’s too late.
Their education started when they were 5 years old, when their parents and teachers are making their educational decisions for them ... kids can’t even decide what will benefit them later on even when they’re 18 an picking a college major!
Personally I think we need to stop teaching calculus and trigonometry in middle & high school, in favor of statistics. It’s got so many practical applications in business, finance, politics, science, tech, marketing, sales — it’s key to so many of the new kinds of jobs employers are looking to fill, across tons of different kinds of industries.
What is needed is obvious: more government taxation and regulation of business, more taxation of investment profits, more political correctness in education, lower educational standards, total denigration of capitalism and business in education and media, etc.
You know, everything Americans voted for.
self-serving Obama type rhetoric.
reality, during the Obama era,
college grads are overqualified,
not underqualified
“Similarly, employers complain that less than half of the young whom they hire have adequate problem-solving skills, yet nearly two-thirds of the young believe that they do have such skills.”
They don’t have such skills, nor do they really know what critical thinking is. They believe that critical thinking is to apply their Marxist-derived dialectics to any problem in order to arrive at the proper solution, since that is what they’ve been taught. Public schools are designed to suppress critical thinking, not encourage it, in order to churn out compliant drones for the state.
Since liberals control our schools they're wholly to blame for youth unemployment. There are only so many hours in a school day. If those are spent teaching pablum and indoctrination then they're wasted and can never be recovered.
ping for later
If I told you my hourly rate of pay when I retired in 1999 as a C.N.C. operator, you probably wouldn’t believe me. My employer required that I be certified at a local Jr. college, which they paid for.
Caution, if you aren’t “good” at math, don’t bother because it is sort of math intensive.
C.N.C. is Computer Numerical Control.
This is what happens when you substitute indoctrination and self esteem for education.
Two words: MINIMUM WAGE
My teenage son has been trying to get a job well over a year to no avail. He says he would be willing to work for $5 an hour but instead he stuck.
It is actually wearing him out. It is becoming difficult for him as he thinks “why bother trying the answer is going to be no anyway”.
Milton Friedman saw the writing on the wall years ago with this minimum wage. He was right and now our children suffer. Companies can nolonger afford to create entry level positions.