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Are Your Students Ready for the Job Market?

12/3/2015

 
We have fixed traditions in education. The needs of the next level up are set by the professors who teach that level. It really makes sense for a system focused on the cultural development of 19th century English gentlemen but it has almost nothing to do with getting kids ready for employment. ​
The Job Market
The Job Market. Source: aesta1
As an example, the aerospace industry is exploding right now. Employment is skyrocketing but not necessarily in total numbers of employees. What then? Productivity of the labour force is a key factor and the skills of the future are critical business understanding of the massive airframe and engine building companies. Let's go ask them what they'll need 3 years out...5 years out and much beyond that is dreaming a bit. 

Take the same model to information technology. "Who you gonna call?" Microsoft? Google? Facebook? Amazon? Spend as much time identifying the skills they need as they do the new technologies they will pursue. Let's ask them. 

Now apply this model to a whole range of employment areas that we have in the world today. And we don't ask once a year. We ask relentlessly and share the information. Will the major employers help? 

If they can see a reasonable link between proposed education and their employment needs they'll be right with you. If they see a group of institutions simply trying to promote their academic version of what maybe needed, they'll quickly be eating lunch in someone else's restaurant. This is just business. It's not alumni rah rah rah. It's not the morality of nationhood. It's not indebtedness to future generations. It's skills, a pure business issue.

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  • TVET Articles
    • Why TVET Institutions Must Catch Up Quickly on Digital Learning
    • Why TVET Must Focus on Digital Education
    • Online Training in TVET
    • The Future of TVET
    • 9 Challenges to TVET in Developing Countries
    • Top 6 Benefits of Vocational and Technical Education for Secondary School Students
    • TVET and the Growing Global Mobility of Labour
    • A More Effective Model for Investing in Skills
    • Towards a More Dynamic Skills Strategy
    • Understanding TVET-Technical and Vocational Education and Training
    • How to Incorporate TVET in High School
    • The Astounding Benefits of Developing Credit and Non Credit Part Time Learning
    • How to Start Cost Recovery in TVET Institutions
    • Levy System in TVET
    • How Did Nice People Like Us Get Into a Mess Like This?
    • Basic Components of an HRD System in National TVET Operations
    • Is the Knowledge Gap Getting Bigger?
    • Skills Bridging in TVET: The Cambodia Experience
    • 8 Ways to Ease Youth Unemployment and Underemployment
    • Employability Skills for TVET Graduates
    • 7 Effective Steps to Engage Employers in TVET
    • Why Employer Based Training is Key to Economic Success
    • Employment Skills Units in TVET Institutions
    • 10 Key Lessons in Revenue Generation for TVET
    • Expanded TVET Training Increases Employment
    • Are TVET Institutions Quietly Falling Off the Edge in Today's Digital World?
    • 10 Management Tips for TVET Leaders
    • Why Marketing is Important in TVET
    • Client Targeting: A Must in TVET Marketing
    • A Basic Marketing Plan for a Small Public TVET Institution
    • Culture: A Challenge to TVET
    • Reinventing the Government Technical College
    • A More Effective Role for Government in TVET
    • Demand for Higher Level TVET Training?
    • 8 Ways of Attracting Students to TVET
  • TVET Trends
    • Why Career Coaching in TVET Institutions
    • 7 Reasons Why Career Planning is a Must in TVET Institutions
    • How Will Microsoft's Job Training Initiative Challenge TVET?
    • Empowering Women on Woodworking & Furniture Carpentry
    • Change in TVET is Not just Coming, It’s Here
    • The Need for New Pathways in TVET Delivery
    • The Impact of a Massive Shift in TVET Demand
    • The Impact of a Shift in Demand for TVET in Developing Economies
    • The Necessity of Partnerships in TVET
    • Why Industry Hesitates to Partner with Government
    • Top 5 Technical School to University Transitioning Concerns
    • Education and Industry Collaboration in TVET: 11 Effective steps
    • Why TVET Needs to Strengthen Links with Industry
    • 7 Powerful Ways to Change Employer’s Attitude towards TVET
    • 6 TVET Institutional Requirements to Develop Linkages with Industry
    • Hands-On Approach to TVET Teaching
    • TVET Equipment: How to Search and Evaluate
    • TVET Teacher Training: The Model that Does Not Work
    • Reading List: Skills Development
  • TVET Issues
  • TVET Links
    • Consulting Companies Bidding on TVET Projects
    • TVET in Different Countries
    • TVET Reading List
    • Online Distance Learning Courses Related to TVET