The whole point of this thread was that some jobs unnecessarily have advanced degrees as prerequisites.
If employers do not want broad-based knowledge and education, why do many IT jobs require college degrees?
Yes, employers do list jobs with very specific requirements - many times after listing a broad based college degree requirement. This tells me they want a formally educated individual with specific work experience.
The trades have similar requirements. I know many certified technicians (HVAC, Automotive, and Industrial) who have either two-year engineering educations or VocTech and their employers still require job-specific experience along with the broad education.
Are there some employers who only want one very specific particular skill? Yep - and I'll bet your "career" at those employers will not last long - as soon as that technology is gone - so are you.
Name me one skilled trade that doesn't require licensing or certification beyond VocTech.
Damn near every "blue collar" trade requires something beyond VocTech school. ASE Certs, I-car, Electricians, Plumbers - heck even cutting hair requires continual licensing and education.
The days of taking 16 year olds and training them on the job vanished about the time we transitioned from an agrarian society to a manufacturing society. Sure - some jobs will give you job-specific knowledge - that may or may not help you at your next gig when your current employer goes bust.
Many industries have spoken. They want employees with a broad-based industry knowledge. Formalized education and certification goes a long way to ensuring that the people you hire have at least a minimum level of skill in the field.
If your hires are terrible, it's not an education or training problem - it's an HR problem....and by the way the Society for Human Resource Management offers education and certification programs to fix your HR problem.
Google and Apple can't/won't federate their messaging systems and you are hoping that Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Apple will simply shrug their shoulders and "standardize" their AI backed voice assistants?
Yet a year into this Russia!, Russia!, Russia! investigation has produced nothing showing improper collusion with the Trump campaign and Russian authorities or agents.
How much time and how many millions of dollars are you willing to throw into the toilet trying to find something - anything to pin on Trump?
Maybe it's time to just let the constitutionally elected president do his job.
Russians buying ads to influence our political system is a problem? Really?
What do you call President Obama outright stumping for Macron in France?
Last time I checked President Obama was not a French citizen and not eligible to vote in their elections. Isn't that unwanted foreign influence in an election?
The Atlantic doesn't give a shit about news or impartiality. They sell news and opinion via various media and are upset that the barriers to entry in their chosen field have been lowered by Google and Facebook and 4Chan.
This horse left the barn a long time ago. Anyone can report news in real-time thanks to their smartphone.
The Atlantic isn't really upset about Google and Facebook - they are upset that anyone can report news and can broadcast an opinion of that news to the entire world.
The high-priests of media aren't happy about this and there is nothing they can do about it.
Nor can you ask someone to sign away their rights - well - not with the force of law.
Two attorney friends of mine explained this to me - they said "go ahead and sign non-competes, contracts with arbitration clauses, and insurance policies requiring lawsuit threshold".
None have the force of law and none prevent you from exercising your right to bring a civil case against, well anyone or any entity.
A judge might recommend arbitration anyway - not because of the contract you signed, but because the court's docket is so full, you might never get your day in court.
All of them suck - Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant - all are worthless in somewhat noisy environments.
Got kids living at home? Drive a car with the windows cracked open or even the AC running? Forget about using any of them.
I do admit - I love watching people ask their phones and speakers something 3 or 4 times before getting frustrated and picking up a handheld device. It's comical.
If we really want fiber to the premises coast to coast in this country, we will need a government initiative to make it happen.
Trump wants to build a wall, and rebuild America's infrastructure - maybe it's time to include fiber in those plans and start treating fiber connectivity like the utility it is. This is too important to be left to companies with an attention span that lasts only through the current fiscal quarter.
Here is the final stage of offshoring manufacturing. Billions were made by importers who did not directly manufacture, but instead contracted the manufacture of their products to overseas manufacturers.
This is the warning shot - if you are successful doing this, Amazon is coming for you. You will do the market research, product development and marketing - then Amazon will simply take the business from you.
Any business that does not own its manufacturing and storefront is at risk.
We run a bunch of SG500s and they are fantastic. Cisco has stated that these are not linksys derived. They cut that company loose quite a while ago. All of their small business line is now designed and engineered by Cisco engineers.
The switches are very similar in operation to the Catalyst line - but without some features like VTP - and they come with lifetime replacement warranties.
For a small school like us they are a great way to run Cisco without paying a ton for smartnet.
I love my iPod classics - they live in both of my cars, and I take one every time I fly. You can't beat a dedicated device for music.
I'm still hoping, one day, that Apple will throw caution to the wind and reboot the iPod classic with flash memory, bluetooth, and a lightning connector.
The move to Office 365 was entirely predictable as Office 365 is simply the next version of Office.
Any medium to large size enterprise that was using Office was already "renting" their software from Microsoft in the form of Software Assurance. Many businesses have become accustomed to annual license/support fees - from networking, to backup to productivity software - almost all of it in production in a decent size enterprise requires annual licensing and support.
Most enterprises that I've seen deploy Office 365 are deploying local copies of Office 2016 and taking great pains to prevent storage of their data in Microsoft's cloud.
This isn't some new paradigm shift to cloud/rental software - it's already been here for many years.
The Trump administration could go one of two ways to fix our broadband infrastructure.
Carrot: Tax breaks and direct subsidies to build out networks with the requirement that all traffic is handled equally in a best-effort manner. This would dovetail nicely with his $1 Trillion infrastructure spending plans.
Stick: Anti-trust enforcement action - carriers using their monopoly status to harm competing services clearly violates all manner of anti-trust laws already on the books.
My guess is the carrot method is more palatable to Trump than the stick method.
Would this be acceptable policy at a college or university? How would you feel if after completing your coursework the university withheld your diploma simply because you decided not to do anything else afterwards?
Who enforces the planning outcome anyway? What happens when a high school senior simply walks away from a minimum wage job offer obtained only to fulfill a graduation requirement?
Congratulations Rahm - you've just created yet another system to be gamed.
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The whole point of this thread was that some jobs unnecessarily have advanced degrees as prerequisites.
If employers do not want broad-based knowledge and education, why do many IT jobs require college degrees?
Yes, employers do list jobs with very specific requirements - many times after listing a broad based college degree requirement. This tells me they want a formally educated individual with specific work experience.
The trades have similar requirements. I know many certified technicians (HVAC, Automotive, and Industrial) who have either two-year engineering educations or VocTech and their employers still require job-specific experience along with the broad education.
Are there some employers who only want one very specific particular skill? Yep - and I'll bet your "career" at those employers will not last long - as soon as that technology is gone - so are you.
I'm patiently waiting for my Model 3, and every day that goes by without one means that I drive my gas-guzzler to work.
Name me one skilled trade that doesn't require licensing or certification beyond VocTech.
Damn near every "blue collar" trade requires something beyond VocTech school. ASE Certs, I-car, Electricians, Plumbers - heck even cutting hair requires continual licensing and education.
The days of taking 16 year olds and training them on the job vanished about the time we transitioned from an agrarian society to a manufacturing society. Sure - some jobs will give you job-specific knowledge - that may or may not help you at your next gig when your current employer goes bust.
Many industries have spoken. They want employees with a broad-based industry knowledge. Formalized education and certification goes a long way to ensuring that the people you hire have at least a minimum level of skill in the field.
If your hires are terrible, it's not an education or training problem - it's an HR problem....and by the way the Society for Human Resource Management offers education and certification programs to fix your HR problem.
Google and Apple can't/won't federate their messaging systems and you are hoping that Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Apple will simply shrug their shoulders and "standardize" their AI backed voice assistants?
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that.
"At least the Senate investigation into Russian collusion is still going strong and expanding"
You anti-Trumpers are really hanging onto this one. A mere days after a guy shoots up Las Vegas authorities announce no ISIS ties to the gunman.
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
Yet a year into this Russia!, Russia!, Russia! investigation has produced nothing showing improper collusion with the Trump campaign and Russian authorities or agents.
How much time and how many millions of dollars are you willing to throw into the toilet trying to find something - anything to pin on Trump?
Maybe it's time to just let the constitutionally elected president do his job.
Russians buying ads to influence our political system is a problem? Really?
What do you call President Obama outright stumping for Macron in France?
Last time I checked President Obama was not a French citizen and not eligible to vote in their elections. Isn't that unwanted foreign influence in an election?
The Atlantic doesn't give a shit about news or impartiality. They sell news and opinion via various media and are upset that the barriers to entry in their chosen field have been lowered by Google and Facebook and 4Chan.
This horse left the barn a long time ago. Anyone can report news in real-time thanks to their smartphone.
The Atlantic isn't really upset about Google and Facebook - they are upset that anyone can report news and can broadcast an opinion of that news to the entire world.
The high-priests of media aren't happy about this and there is nothing they can do about it.
An HOA does not have the authority to block or prevent the installation of an antenna designed to receive television signals:
https://www.fcc.gov/media/over...
Nor can you ask someone to sign away their rights - well - not with the force of law.
Two attorney friends of mine explained this to me - they said "go ahead and sign non-competes, contracts with arbitration clauses, and insurance policies requiring lawsuit threshold".
None have the force of law and none prevent you from exercising your right to bring a civil case against, well anyone or any entity.
A judge might recommend arbitration anyway - not because of the contract you signed, but because the court's docket is so full, you might never get your day in court.
...TV 3D glasses of the computing world.
All of them suck - Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant - all are worthless in somewhat noisy environments.
Got kids living at home? Drive a car with the windows cracked open or even the AC running? Forget about using any of them.
I do admit - I love watching people ask their phones and speakers something 3 or 4 times before getting frustrated and picking up a handheld device. It's comical.
Project Veritas got a couple of CNN folks to admit that the Russia collusion story was bullshit.
http://breaking.projectveritas...
More videos of CNN dishonesty and partisanship here:
http://projectveritas.com/tag/...
Anyone who believes anything they see on CNN needs to have their head examined.
What good is 100 Mbps download when your uploads are choked to 20 Mbps or less?
One only uses Comcast/Xfinity broadband when one has no other option.
If we really want fiber to the premises coast to coast in this country, we will need a government initiative to make it happen.
Trump wants to build a wall, and rebuild America's infrastructure - maybe it's time to include fiber in those plans and start treating fiber connectivity like the utility it is. This is too important to be left to companies with an attention span that lasts only through the current fiscal quarter.
Computers are a tool, one which damn near every employer expects proficiency.
Expecting a computer to raise test scores is like expecting wrenches to make a competent mechanic.
What's scary is that our educators expected computers to actually raise test scores....somehow....by magic.
Isn't that the sole purpose of the teaching profession?
Here is the final stage of offshoring manufacturing. Billions were made by importers who did not directly manufacture, but instead contracted the manufacture of their products to overseas manufacturers.
This is the warning shot - if you are successful doing this, Amazon is coming for you. You will do the market research, product development and marketing - then Amazon will simply take the business from you.
Any business that does not own its manufacturing and storefront is at risk.
"Why are you and I subsidizing Big Corn's products and when will their businesses be able to compete on their own?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We run a bunch of SG500s and they are fantastic. Cisco has stated that these are not linksys derived. They cut that company loose quite a while ago. All of their small business line is now designed and engineered by Cisco engineers.
The switches are very similar in operation to the Catalyst line - but without some features like VTP - and they come with lifetime replacement warranties.
For a small school like us they are a great way to run Cisco without paying a ton for smartnet.
I love my iPod classics - they live in both of my cars, and I take one every time I fly. You can't beat a dedicated device for music.
I'm still hoping, one day, that Apple will throw caution to the wind and reboot the iPod classic with flash memory, bluetooth, and a lightning connector.
C'mon Tim! Make a new iPod classic!
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Is it any wonder that middle class wages have stagnated and young workers are under employed?
And some people still can't figure out why Hillary lost....
Having owned numerous Nexus devices and numerous iPhones - I've used both.
My wife noticed that the pictures I took with my 5X and 6P were just nicer than the pictures taken with our iPhone 6S and 7.
And I suck at photography - but somehow the nexus cameras enabled a half-ass photographer like me to take pretty decent pictures.
I prefer iPhone for everything else, but cameras on Android, generally, are pretty damn good.
The move to Office 365 was entirely predictable as Office 365 is simply the next version of Office.
Any medium to large size enterprise that was using Office was already "renting" their software from Microsoft in the form of Software Assurance. Many businesses have become accustomed to annual license/support fees - from networking, to backup to productivity software - almost all of it in production in a decent size enterprise requires annual licensing and support.
Most enterprises that I've seen deploy Office 365 are deploying local copies of Office 2016 and taking great pains to prevent storage of their data in Microsoft's cloud.
This isn't some new paradigm shift to cloud/rental software - it's already been here for many years.
The Trump administration could go one of two ways to fix our broadband infrastructure.
Carrot: Tax breaks and direct subsidies to build out networks with the requirement that all traffic is handled equally in a best-effort manner. This would dovetail nicely with his $1 Trillion infrastructure spending plans.
Stick: Anti-trust enforcement action - carriers using their monopoly status to harm competing services clearly violates all manner of anti-trust laws already on the books.
My guess is the carrot method is more palatable to Trump than the stick method.
Since you are asking for speculation - I'll give it to you.
Obama was at war with Fox News during his entire administration:
http://www.newsweek.com/when-o...
Don't think for a minute that if the opportunity to put the screws to Fox presented itself, Obama would have passed.
If you need to produce ID to buy a gun (which is a constitutionally protected right), then you should need to produce an ID to vote.
Would this be acceptable policy at a college or university? How would you feel if after completing your coursework the university withheld your diploma simply because you decided not to do anything else afterwards?
Who enforces the planning outcome anyway? What happens when a high school senior simply walks away from a minimum wage job offer obtained only to fulfill a graduation requirement?
Congratulations Rahm - you've just created yet another system to be gamed.