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May 30, 2009, 01:24 |
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| Shit, I dunno about engineering but nursing has such a job shortage only because of the colleges and universities "teaching" people to do it. Say you have a group of 100 first-year nursing students. By year 4, you have the 10 or fewer students who had straight-As, and sitting outside you have the other 90 or more students who weren't getting straight-As and so they were force-failed out over the previous 3 years. Why? Because that way, colleges and universities can say their graduates pass the NCLEX on the first try over 95% of the time. Seriously, you can't throw a stone without hitting someone that wants to be a nurse, and yet there are so few because of this. And the best part? Like any other good certification test, the NCLEX doesn't prepare you to actually be a nurse, and the few that do make it have to be retrained at their places of work! |
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| Huh? I'm sorry, I was thinking about cake. |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
May 29, 2009, 23:52 |
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I really don't believe colleges when they talk about job statistics and placement for graduates or current students. I know a lot of former classmates who don't fill out their alumni request information packets because our university did very little to foster more technical fields of study. Their career department was basically full of people who really had no idea what you were talking about when you listed what you've studied and what you enjoyed, they pretended of course. But all that matters to those people is if you walk out with a job or not, not if it's a job "suited" to you or that you *WANTED*. Just a job....could be a secretary, could be a janitor... People can't go jobless until they find what they really want, but the university counts that unskilled labor job just the same as your dream job.
I still say colleges and Unis should try to work with businesses, let the businesses come up with some ideas they'd like to see prototyped. Nothing critical to their business, but something they'd pay the Uni to base some courses around and let students work on this project as they learn their coursework. Then if it goes really well, and you enjoyed it. You might just have found what you'd like to do. I know when I was in college, I had no idea how what I was learning might be applied or what jobs would be really good fits. I was guessing, and it didn't go so well for me in the end.
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May 29, 2009, 13:52 |
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| That's because Engineering is the number 1 hardest to fill job. Next in line is nurses. |
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| PS3 resurgance by GOW3 - Check! Mass Effect for PS3 - Check! Diablo 3 for consoles? I say "For sure"! |
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