Nosewarts wrote:
I have to wonder how many of you have been out in the job market recently, particularly in white collar fields. Bachelors degrees have become practically pre-requisites now while masters degrees are required to set yourself apart from the legions of UNDERgraduates out there. Today 25% of the professional workforce already has 4 year bachelors degrees, which is a staggering number when you think about it, compared to 10, even 5 years ago. That's why so many employers emphasize post-graduate education in your resume. But as always, desired experience is the #1 bullet you can have. Of course, if you graduated from the Ivy Leagues then you probably had your job lined up in your junior year of college.
Well said. As a manager I can see how someone would gobble up these guys that don't have degrees. They would sersiously be cheap labor. The company I work for does a mentor program to get kids to lean more towards advanced engineering degrees for several factors. I will let a article we were sent speak for itself:
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The challenge is very real. In 1999, according to data compiled by the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), only 61,000 bachelor-level engineering degrees were granted in the United States versus more than 134,000 in the EU, 103,000 in Japan, and more than 195,000 in China. And it has been projected that millions of jobs requiring math and science skills could go unfilled by 2008.
For many years, we’ve supported education at the college and high school levels. Now we want to make sure we include -- indeed that we focus on -- another critical level of the educational experience: middle school.
We recently conducted a survey of American 6th to 8th graders that showed that a combined 84% would rather do one of the following: clean their rooms, eat their vegetables, take out the garbage or go to the dentist than sit down with their math homework.
But the survey also held out hope. The vast majority of students surveyed, 81%, said they would be more interested in math if they were shown how people in fields that excite them – music, sports, and video game design, for example – use math in their jobs.
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