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Companies don't want to train: they want Instant Workers. Often they want combinations of skills that are unlikely to be had by any one individual. They want ve
by tabtab 8y ago
Companies don't want to train: they want Instant Workers. Often they want combinations of skills that are unlikely to be had by any one individual. They want version X of the database, vendor Y of the IDE, vendor Z of the network, etc. Shopping the world increases the chances of fitting their desired skill combo via shere probability; it has almost nothing to do with training. Think about it.
- pteredactyl 8y agoI agree. And for the companies it makes sense to not want to train. I'm saying the onus is not on them. But on the US education system. K-12 and beyond.
- tabtab 8y agoThat won't work either for the "combo-hunting" problem. One cannot predict specific company combos ahead of time when in school. Plus, companies want practical experience, not classwork experience. I'm at a loss for an easy to way to explain the "combo problem" at the moment.
- pteredactyl 8y agoFair but why should a certain nation or place be better at solving the combo problem than another?
- tabtab 8y agoI'm not quite sure what you mean. And often there's no reciprocal "combo-hunting" because of labor rates. India in general does not want "reverse" H1B's, for example. The US pays more than India such that Indians are more likely to want to participate in USA's labor pool than vice versa because Indian wages would be small if exported/returned to the USA.