“C-suite executive”? WTH is that?
Weird. I don't see anything there about having the ability to sit at a desk playing with a "smart phone" for 8 hours a day.
Our college system is not about educating students. It’s a self-serving racket with the only purpose to keep that racket going.
Ha that’s interesting I’m not that impressed with senior managers .
Academia have been to busy “radicalizing” the young students.
At almost 60, without even an AS degree, I can out compete the vast majority of graduates spanning about the last 15-20 years for positions like “Field Engineer”.
There are many top level academic colleges in this country that have very high standards and are excellent universities. Perhaps these students are snapped right up after graduation, but it’s hard to believe that they are the minority.
And 100% of the educators are immune from repercussions from their laziness and stupidity because a) they have tenure and b) school administrators and school boards are so ignorant as to not be aware of any problems.
Note to recent college grads and the Class of 2012: You may not be as ready for the working world as you think you are...
Well then get off your lazy duffs and train employees the way you want them. Or you could always use a little of that critical thinking you claim that you value and hire employees based on what you want and forget about the college degrees.
“The most sought-after are problem-solving (49% ranked it No. 1), collaboration (43%), and critical thinking (36%).”
I’m willing to bet that 100% of these so-called executives can’t even define what they’re looking for without using generic catchphrases and business jargon. The inarticulate, egotistical executives say that the illiterate Lesbian French Ice Sculpture majors lack basic skills like communication? Pot, meet kettle.
Stories like this strike a nerve with me. There’s a real problem with our colleges, but it’s also not right to have unrealistic expectations of graduates.
And yet they will hire them and turn down or fire anyone over 40 or anyone who lacks a degree.
Consider the graduation rate of the top undergrad schools. Harvard is over 95%, Yale, Princeton and the rest not too far behind.
It used to be that it was hard to get through school, and not everyone made it. 30% or less for an engineering school used to get through with a degree.
With a graduation rate of over 90, where does the winnowing occur? Now, in the first job, that’s where.
I see young people who refuse to use a phone, they’ll text me or email, but call? And when I’m called in somewhere to do a brief, EVERYONE is stuck in a laptop, eyes peering over the top of the screen, if at all. I can babble for an hour then ask, any questions? And get none! No people skills, and that makes it difficult to pull a team together to actually DO something.
This is the first generation that was raised in day care as opposed to being raised primarily with family. The first generation that went through afterschool day care. The first generation that grew up in group think environments and group planned activities. The first generation of kids who let themselves in to their homes and fended for themselves until parents came home - if they were lucky enough to have both parents.
Maybe it’s having an effect.
What they really want is people who will work for free, who don't need medical benefits, accept meaningless commissions prizes and phony incentives in lieu of real raises....The CEO's make 350+++ a month, and they pay the help 1992 wages of 50k per year......After taxes maybe 37k.
Who's kidding who?
Makes me all the happier I spent my life studying science.
1. No serious work ethic (they're not lazy, they just don't care very much about doing a job right).
2. No pride in their work or their profession (see #1).
3. A serious lack of critical thinking skills.
4. Poor writing and speaking skills (and these are Americans I'm talking about, not the ones who are foreign-born).
5. Lack of any decision-making ability (even the ones who do things well only do them well after they've been instructed about things that should not need explaining).
I'm convinced that none of this is a problem with college education at all. It's a much bigger problem related to how we raise our kids.