Friday August 10, 2012
Gary Shilling makes the case that too many college students emerge without any marketable skills. He notes taht a soft degree might have had some value ten or twenty years ago but most of those jobs are being replaced by computers or, he does not say but, simply outsourcing that job by the hour to otherwise unemployed grads. Law firms now routinely outsource legal work by the hour, there are more lawyers and law positions.
this certainly reflects my view and any student in my classes will tell you about my emphasis on obtaining a certification.
Henry Blodgett asks good question, where do we get to the point that employers ask hard questions.
Shilling answers that more employers will be using qualification exams. Bingo, just what I have been telling students, this is the role that a certification delivered by an organization outside the university is the new norm.
Professor Elam 
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