InfoWeek: “Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are Unemployable”
The article continues to point out that this is a reflection of work ethic, not intelligence, quality of education, etc.:
Many American grads looking to enter the tech field are preoccupied with getting rich, Vineet said. They’re far less inclined than students from developing countries like India, China, Brazil, South Africa, and Ireland to spend their time learning the “boring” details of tech process, methodology, and tools–ITIL, Six Sigma, and the like. [InfoWeek]
What does that mean to you, in the context of Canadian competitiveness? Perhaps we should be teaching Six Sigma, project management and various methodologies and disciplines in high school classrooms? I found it frustrating how my formal education – high-school or university – did little to prepare me for work, in terms of any sort of introduction to the things that people actually do in offices or on shop floors.
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