[ From Alina Tugend's NYT commentary]
“A four-year liberal arts education doesn’t prepare kids for work and it never has,” said Alec R. Levenson a senior research scientist for the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California.
Mara Swan, the executive vice president of global strategy and talent at Manpower Group, agreed.
“There’s always been a gap between what colleges produce and what employers want,” she said. “But now it’s widening.” That’s because workplaces are more complex and globalized, profit margins are slimmer, companies are leaner and managers expect their workers to get up to speed much faster than in the past.
“Employers are under pressure to do more with less,” Ms. Swan said.
Read the whole article to see what colleges and employers are doing about it:
