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America has more than 6 million vacant jobs, yet the country is "facing a serious skills gap," Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta recently said. And last week his boss, President Donald Trump, said he wants to close this gap by directing $100 million of federal money into apprenticeship programs. Apprenticeships in the U.S. are generally known for training workers for blue collar jobs like plumbers or electricians, but with a little tweak, they could be the path to lucrative, white collar tech jobs across the country. Not just in coastal cities, but also in the Midwest, South, and across the Great Plains.
But to get there we need to erase the notion that highly paid jobs require a college degree. It's not always true. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, among others, has called for a shift in focus: "skills, not degrees. It's not skills at the exclusion of degrees. It's just expanding our perspective to go beyond degrees."
An academic degree signals to employers that a person has successfully completed a course of study, but it does not provide a clear assessment of someone's skills. Companies, especially in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) industries, are shifting their recruiting process from "where did you study?" to "what can you do?".
Germans have long cited their apprenticeship system as a factor in their economic success. Would it help America and elsewhere, too?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Lagg on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:25PM
Obama also didn't rant on twitter about shit that people on bad trips do like people visiting them and bleeding from the face. He just expanded surveillance powers stealthily and had good PR. This guy however is bluntly unhinged and leaking with ulterior motive. Known to have a vocabulary and understanding level low enough to need memos composed of flow charts and with a page overhead less than what I had to write for high school essays. Known to love prefixing/suffixing in stupid ways and his truly sorry excuses for word play.
It's almost a certainty he's basing the call for apprenticeships on the fact that they're contracts with shit terms (and lockin to your teacher by nature, fucking anathema to autonomy these things) rather than any consideration or understanding of the similarities/differences between it and trade school. If it's not because of that it's because it's called an apprenticeship and The Donald(TM) likes things about apprentices. If it's not that it's because he does in fact mean trade school but is so disconnected from reality and being self-sufficient that he thinks they're the same.
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