The job market of the American society is a big market with many jobs that we need, but are often being overlooked by those looking for jobs. Many of those jobs that are overlooked are ones such as manufacturing, industrial, construction, etc. because those looking for jobs simply don’t know much about them. We need to know what it takes to be prepared and trained for the modern working world. We need to know whose job it is to prepare students for the demands of the modern working world. Also we need to know in what ways are community and technical colleges, as well as universities and four year colleges preparing or not preparing students for the modern working world. As far as what it takes to be prepared for the modern working world. It
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It would seem that they are not doing the best that they can, citing that in Ron Wolfe’s “Too Many Students Pursue Worthless Degrees”, 2012, he states that the degrees in the fields of math and science for the high paying jobs in the industry are some of the least popular among students, that’s not good. He goes on to say that most of the degrees that are earned in those fields are often earned by foreign exchange students, who take the knowledge back to their home countries, again, that’s not good for us Americans. What’s worse is that over half of our nation’s college graduates can’t find jobs in their fields of study, and as such are either unemployed, or underemployed. It would seem as though the universities and tech schools just are not doing enough to inform the students on what would actually be the best route for them to take for a degree, surely had those students been informed of just how poor off they would do if they continued to pursue their current degrees, they would have chosen different paths of study to better prepare themselves for their futures. Likewise not many students know that they actually don’t have to go to four year colleges, lots of them view tech schools and trade schools as cheap alternatives, when in reality they are just as good, if not better, providing their students with credits that can transfer to other colleges, or better yet, offering course to earn degrees in that will actually help a student get further in
It would seem that they are not doing the best that they can, citing that in Ron Wolfe’s “Too Many Students Pursue Worthless Degrees”, 2012, he states that the degrees in the fields of math and science for the high paying jobs in the industry are some of the least popular among students, that’s not good. He goes on to say that most of the degrees that are earned in those fields are often earned by foreign exchange students, who take the knowledge back to their home countries, again, that’s not good for us Americans. What’s worse is that over half of our nation’s college graduates can’t find jobs in their fields of study, and as such are either unemployed, or underemployed. It would seem as though the universities and tech schools just are not doing enough to inform the students on what would actually be the best route for them to take for a degree, surely had those students been informed of just how poor off they would do if they continued to pursue their current degrees, they would have chosen different paths of study to better prepare themselves for their futures. Likewise not many students know that they actually don’t have to go to four year colleges, lots of them view tech schools and trade schools as cheap alternatives, when in reality they are just as good, if not better, providing their students with credits that can transfer to other colleges, or better yet, offering course to earn degrees in that will actually help a student get further in