Million Engineers Struggling to Find a Job

Townhall.com ^ | June 23, 2013 | Mike Shedlock

[BwanaNdege]

...if properly educated and trained,...<

Way back in the mid-1960's at Ga Tech, we were told, "If and when you guys graduate from Tech, don't think you are engineers. You have been taught enough to understand the language, to have the requisite skills and to learn from those at your first job who will train you to become an engineer."

The education, even from excellent schools, is not enough to make an engineer. Training in a particular field is needed to make a good engineer. An innate mindset is necessary to make a great engineer.

For an enjoyable read and an excellent example of a "great engineer", read Nevil Shute's "Trustee from the Toolroom."

[Mr. K]

I hate ‘testing’ interviews so much I refuse to do them anymore

When someone asks if I will do a ‘brain bench’ I tell them no, I have been doing this for 25 years- I don’t want or need to be taking tests anymore.

The last time someone asked “what is the difference between a Class and a Struct?” I said- go look it up... and ended the interview

[musicman]

[Lazamataz]

[Lazamataz]

When someone asks if I will do a ‘brain bench’ I tell them no, I have been doing this for 25 years- I don’t want or need to be taking tests anymore. The last time someone asked “what is the difference between a Class and a Struct?” I said- go look it up... and ended the interview.

I have taken to leaping over the table and pummelling them with my fists until they give me the job.

[Mr. K]

That works for you? I had no success with that method

I must be doing it wrong

[longtermmemmory]

need?
why?

they will hire those that are 1/3 the cost of an overpriced engineer.

[Grzegorz 246]

“These articles were purportedly about China. Change the names and faces and the stories are not much different than you can find right here in the US, in Italy, in France, or anywhere else in a slow-grow global economy.”

Global economic slow-down is one thing, another is enormous expansion of “academic industry” (as that is how it should be called) around the world in the last two decades, when in fact majority of jobs, even in the most advanced countries are for factory workers, builders, retail clerks, drivers etc. “Universities” (often full of morons, who would struggle to find a real job) produce far more graduates than business will ever need and governments turn a blind eye to it as that’s what make unemployment statistics look better (on paper of course) when millions of people stay “in education” for a few more years.