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From the article - To parse the simultaneous claims of both a shortage and a surplus of STEM workers [...] Or to put it another way: there is no shortage of ap
by bostik 13y ago
From the article - To parse the simultaneous claims of both a shortage and a surplus of STEM workers [...]
Or to put it another way: there is no shortage of applicants, but there sure is a shortage of good ones.
- randomdata 13y agoThat is the impression I have always gone away with when this subject comes up. Companies don't want STEM workers, they want the "top 1%" of STEM workers. There is a shortage of them, but training more people in the field will not necessarily increase the suitable labor pool.
- walid 13y agoI also find that a lot of the problem is that many companies want a ready STEM worker. In other words someone who can get up and going immediately. Business plans require it but such a person is specialized and cannot have got up and running without dabbling in the field either alone or in another job. So you get a lot of able STEM workers not well honed in any specialty and get rejected for a big job.