The State Of The Job Market Job Seeking Process Is Reducing Applicants To Desperate Beggars.

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24. That's exactly what I said

Eg, "understanding things like basic project management".

That is education that transcends a specific job requirement. If a company needs a bunch of widget constructors, they won't waste time teaching those employees the interaction of that widget with the trivets coming from another factory, nor will they teach that employee or the general concepts behind workflow management.

It's not worth the expense and even worse -- the hidden hazard. After they have taught that employee those things he can leverage that knowlege by threatening to take his talents to another employer. Or, heaven forbid...increase his salary.

But from a macro standpoint...a societal standpoint, that's exactly what WE want.

If you're looking for a new technology you don't focus all your training on the current technology. You teach {on edit, train was the wrong word} for the concepts and principles behind the technology. Corporations make their profit from the current technology. There is no bottom line benefit from something that doesn't exist.

In order to do that you need a force that isn't driven by the profit model. There was no profit from our space race...only afterwards and as a subsidiary benefit.

Obama is wrong. He's not listening to the people who have altruistic motives. He's listening to those who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.