{"id":40348,"date":"2013-05-31T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40348"},"modified":"2013-05-31T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:14:30","slug":"reflections-on-how-to-get-a-job-by-thomas-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/05\/31\/reflections-on-how-to-get-a-job-by-thomas-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “How to get a job” by Thomas Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to get a job<\/strong><\/a> — by Thomas L. Friedman<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC<\/span>):<\/em><\/p>\n

Underneath the huge drop in demand that drove unemployment up to 9 percent during the recession, there\u2019s been an important shift in the education-to-work model in America. Anyone who\u2019s been looking for a job knows what I mean. It is best summed up by the mantra from the Harvard education expert Tony Wagner that the world doesn\u2019t care anymore what you know; all it cares \u201cis what you can do with what you know.\u201d<\/span><\/strong> And since jobs are evolving so quickly, with so many new tools, a bachelor\u2019s degree is no longer considered an adequate proxy by employers for your ability to do a particular job \u2014 and, therefore, be hired.\u00a0So, more employers are designing their own tests to measure applicants\u2019 skills. And they increasingly don\u2019t care how those skills were acquired: home schooling, an online university, a massive open online course, or Yale. They just want to know one thing: Can you add value?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

People get rejected for jobs for two main reasons, said Sharef. One, \u201cyou\u2019re not showing the employer how you will help them add value,\u201d and, two, \u201cyou don\u2019t know what you want, and it comes through because you have not learned the skills that are needed.\u201d The most successful job candidates, she added, are \u201cinventors and solution-finders,\u201d who are relentlessly \u201centrepreneurial\u201d because they understand that many employers today don\u2019t care about your r\u00e9sum\u00e9, degree or how you got your knowledge, but only what you can do and what you can continuously reinvent yourself to do.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So how about it? Are the students coming out of K-12 and higher ed prepared for this changing workplace? If not, how can we better prepare them? It seems to me we should require that each student create their own business — and help them build it before they graduate.\u00a0<\/strong> It doesn’t matter if that business makes any money at all.\u00a0 What matters is the learning\/experiences that the students would gain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, to folks in the corporate world,<\/strong> help us get students to the places you need them to be — and stop expecting the”purple unicorns” to show up at your doorstep.\u00a0 Adjust your expectations and aim for a higher purpose than pleasing the shareholder\/Wall Street.<\/span><\/p>\n

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