Posted on 03/27/2018 7:02:16 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Companies are realizing that they have to train new workers to learn job skills that they failed to learn in college, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. A new column published last week in the Wall Street Journal revealed that a four-year college degree might actually hinder an employee’s readiness to complete job-specific tasks after hiring.
The report revealed that AT&T is spending more than $1 billion to train their employees on how to perform various tasks at the evolving telecommunications company. Some attribute this to the amount of time new employees spend in college learning skills that they will never apply on the job.
According to employer surveys, only half of college graduates end up landing a job that allows them to utilize the skills they learned in their degree program.
Some employers have encouraged reliance on bachelor’s degrees as a proxy for skills by requiring a diploma for jobs that didn’t previously require one, Mr. Fuller said. But such degree requirements are limiting the number of applicants for a job and increasing costs for companies and employees. They also lead to frustration for workers, since fewer than half of people who enroll in college end up graduating and landing a job that utilizes their degree, he said.
Some, including Dr. Ed Schweitzer, a former electrical engineering professor, argues that the current educational system may prevent great minds from breaking into the field in which they could make a great impact.
“If Thomas Edison walked through the door today, would we turn him away because we don’t have a job opening for an inventor?” Dr. Schweitzer said.
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The worst place to learn job skills and character building is college. The best place to learn both is in the home with dedicated parents. Strong homes really are the foundation of a strong country.
Best alternative: take 18-year-olds who show some ability to learn. Cheap labor. Train them and give them skills. They don’t need college. Everyone is a winner. Solves the student debt problem. Solves the Marxist indoctrination problem.
Now, if you’re talking neurosurgeon, civil engineer, or other such fields, I support a solid college education. But for people who will be stuck in a cubicle for the rest of their lives? College is not needed. At all.
Most college degrees do not lead to jobs or career paths. So it’s not surprising to hear that they have to be trained. College doesn’t train people for particular jobs.
Yes there are exceptions, such as getting degrees in accounting or nursing or some of the hard sciences. Otherwise, most degrees just don’t translate into the job market.
That is because their college was worthless marxist SJW indoctrination.
Even in the hard sciences, college is merely foundational work. I learned more in 4 weeks of OTJ engineering than getting a BSME, but I could never have stepped up to the plate without the BSME.
I wouldn’t go that far.... I enhanced my marketable skill set in college, and I learned how to push through 4 years of stuff I really didn’t care for that was not directly related to my degree in order to achieve my goals, as well as how to navigate a faceless bureaucracy over those 4 years effectively.
However I got a degree in a scientific field... a liberal arts degree in general isn’t the best choice if you are looking for marketable skills.
I figure colleges need to teach more ‘social justice’ and diversity BS.
I'm not sure that's the colleges' downfall. Students often choose majors in fields that have no direct employment possibilities. I think the most underutilized job training institution is the US Military.
Of course with that said, given the cost of such a degree today, and the wage expectation for it... I would probably not have done college today... but a trade school.
I spent about 20k on my degree, and walked into a 40k a year job.... Today that same degree at the same university would be 80k and the job would be around 50k.... ROI is not worth it.
High school is where kids learn the skills they were supposed to learn in middle school, like writing a few coherent paragraphs and maybe some algebra.
Middle school is where kids learn what they were supposed to learn in elementary school, like how to read at the 3rd or 4th grade level.
Elementary school is where kids learn what they were supposed to learn at home, like how to sit still, how to wash your hands, and basic politeness.
Home is where they learn how to forage in the kitchen for food, and play video games in a filthy house while mom entertains her new boyfriend in the bedroom.
Ahhh not this crap again
Companies Have to Teach Workers Skills that They Didn’t Learn in HIGH SCHOOL!!
I have an in-law who does work with the local electricians union. They have a training and apprentice program to train workers for high-voltage lines, industrial electrical installations, etc... The (nearly all) guys coming out are easily making $50/hour before any overtime or benefits
They can’t find enough people to even enter the program, much less graduate from it.
No. Colleges are too busy teaching gender, homo, lezzy, hate America, marxism, White Privilege.
Colleges and college degrees for the most part are useless nowadays. They’re PC left leaning liberal indoctrination centers graduating self-absorbed, entitled minded, narcissistic, social media addicted morons that don’t have a clue.
And I’m being nice.
That has always been the case.
A hard lesson to learn not taught in college
“anticipate delay as routine”
Half of the young callers into Dave Ramsey’s show have useless degrees and ridiculous student loan debt.
Parents need to guide their kids in MIDDLE SCHOOL, to line up a High School curricula that will best prepare them for meaningful employment.
IT IS NOT ABOUT YOUR GPA!!!
Take a challenge!
Skills such as....?
Some examples would be nice for reference. My degree wasn’t training in specific skills for a specific job. It was readiness to then learn once I entered my career.
Skill number 1: Don’t spend your day texting and updating Facebook. That’s not what you are being paid for.
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