Posted on 03/08/2018 9:17:43 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Because they're cheaper than American STEM grads.
Anyone with “hard” engineering, software programming or math skills are in high demand. From someone working in the field. Cheers!
Thankfully, we don’t have a glut in womyn’s studies, art history, and journalism.
We need more of these critical fields.
/sarc
Another oldie: BS...Bull $hit...MS...More $hit...PhD...Piled Higher and Deeper.
They’re looking at the wrong part of STEM. The shortage isn’t in PHDs teaching the next wave, it’s in non-PHDs doing the actual work.
From Ghostbusters: “you’ve never worked in the private sector. They expect results!”
PhD’s looking to be professors are a different market than most STEM grads.
I think you are correct, this academia.
That is the tip of the iceberg. Biomedical science is extremely heavy with non-Americans, including a ton from China. Further, these groups tend to stick together and support each other in peer review for grants, etc., and it has become a mafia of sorts. My solution? A limit for the percentage of non-Americans receiving federal grant funding at any institution at any given time needs to be imposed. These are dollars from American taxpayers, and should not be given with impunity to non-citizens.
Biomedical science, and the development of drugs, devices, new therapies, etc. has been an area in which the US has led the world. It should have been nurtured as a big exportable positive in the US portfolio. Instead, we've brought in tons of non-citizens - forcing a glut on the market, we've tried over and over again politically to ruin our medical system, and we subsidize the medical systems of other nations - as citizens of those nations pay less for American discoveries, drugs, devices, etc. than do American citizens.
This is a major area that needs to be addressed.
Because of HR policies.
I could have told them this ten years ago.
Biological Sciences degrees, especially, are useful only as toilet paper these days. Unless you’re going into something specialized, like medicine. As for Veterinary, if you’re male, forget it.
For all the STEM types graduating, there will be a deficient supply of “full stack” engineers. If she has the aptitude, make sure - literally - understands at least the core concepts of: how to start with a pile of sand, refine it into semiconductor-grade silicon, lay out circuits thereon, design basic logic components from NAND gates, build a basic CPU, write a simple operating system & compiler, program from assembler to C to Swift/Java, create & use a network (wired & wireless), and write apps for a leading-edge “mobile device”.
That’s a lot of hardware on the way to software, but methinks today there’s a terrifying lack of software engineers who don’t actually know how any of the “magic” works. Those who do will stand out from the STEM crowd.
The same thing is happening out here in California.
Few grads from our Maritime Academy go to sea more than once. PGE and other companies are gobbling them up.
>> “It turns out that new PhDs in science have a hard time getting a job like their mentor’s:
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> Speaking of Accuracy in Academia, either put the apostrophe in the right place, or leave it out — depending on the intended meaning.
That’s actually correct: Mentor-possessive with implicit ‘job’. (ie “they have a hard time getting a job like their mentor’s job.”)
I'm sure that you can over-educate yourself, though. In IT, sure, I'd love to see "B.S." on a resume. "M.S."? Maybe, depending on what it's in. "PhD"? I'd wonder why they were applying for the job....not too many PhDs in the work that I do. And, I'd wonder how long they'd stick around, particularly in a entry-level, or 2-3 years experience type job.
I thought about getting my MBA for about 5 minutes, until I found out that there was such a glut of them on the market that the place where I was hired MBAs to work the phones at 11-12 bucks an hour.
Never Mind.
They have hands on experience and can fix most anything engine related. Many of our grads obtain their stationary engineer’s license and a good number work for their PE license.
I am sure the “E” in there is in high demand. Naval staring scientists, probably not so much.
Because they're being brought here at 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of an American worker. Problem is, the India workers are highly specialized vs. American workers that have multiple specialties / highly skilled generalists.
So that initial "savings" the beancounters think they're getting vis a vis displacing American workers for H-1B's disappears pretty quickly when they have to bring in three, four, five of them to make up for the skills of one American worker.
I'm NOT making these numbers up. I've been through this drill twice now, am on my third with my current employer. It's an ugly thing to watch.
Uh, the article does not match the headline.
The headline is about STEM jobs, which cover a huge range of fields.
The article is about a glut in tenure track positions for Ph.Ds in research universities, which is a miniscule part of the STEM world.
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