The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

[rcjordan]

In summary, we find that businesses more severely affected by the Great Recession were more likely to invest in new technology, and while this technology may have helped replace some forms of routine jobs, it apparently increased the demand for greater worker skills for other routine jobs.

https://hbr.org/2017/10/the-great-recession-drastically-changed-the-skills-employers-want

[rcjordan]

Fed's Harker says job training needed to boost U.S. economy

While we're essentially at the point of maximum employment — in its simplest terms, if you want a job, you can get one relatively easily — that doesn't mean it's a good job, or that it pays a living wage, or that it comes with the benefits that can be truly family-sustaining

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-harker-workforce/feds-harker-says-job-training-needed-to-boost-u-s-economy-idUSKBN1CA1LE?il=0

[Mackin USA]

> job training

That should be done in high school but the DROP-OUT-RATE today is disgusting IMFO

[rcjordan]

>high school

There's a problem with that:

The frontal lobes, home to key components of the neural circuitry underlying "executive functions" such as planning, working memory, and impulse control, are among the last areas of the brain to mature; they may not be fully developed until halfway through the third decade of life

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892678/

[Brad]

Right about the time we quit saying, "hold my beer."