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Graduates traditionally are trained by employers to be functional employees. The point of the original article is that few graduates have any skills of use to
by zwischenzug 16y ago
Graduates traditionally are trained by employers to be functional employees.
The point of the original article is that few graduates have any skills of use to the employer, making their degrees worthless.
Having interviewed many Indian graduates over the last ten years, I've learned to ignore their CVs and simply talk to them. If they seem bright and keen to learn they can be useful, but they're only considered because they're cheap.
- gaius 16y agoThe difficulty I have found interviewing people who have been through the mainstream Indian educational system is they say "yes" to everything. Me: Have you used technology X? Them: Yes Me: Tell me how you used it Them: I used it every day Me: What did you use it for? Them: I used technology X every day to do my job. It is a very good technology. This goes on for a bit, and I can see them getting flustered, and they almost seem to resent me, as if I'm deliberately and maliciously trying to humiliate them by asking a question "that's not on the test". Whereas "no, but I used technology Y" would be a perfectly acceptable answer.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoFew graduates have any skills at all, outside homework and testtaking. True all over the world. Skills are acquired during the 1st year at the job. The credential still is meaningful - how much spadework is there to training an educated subject vs one with no vocabulary, no facility with theory, no proven ability to learn? So yes, hire a successful college grad over, say, a tongue-tied inexperienced person without a degree.