Confronting the Skills Gap – Are Higher Education Graduates Career Ready?
First, let's be clear that the so-called skills gap is not something new. It's been brewing like a toxic stew for more than forty years. The term "skills gap" only barely describes what is really going on. Nearly everyone involved has had some role in creating and sustaining something that runs deeply in the culture of western society.
The often unrealistic expectations and dreams of many well-meaning people are at the center of a tragedy of the perceived skills gap. It is the unfortunate byproduct of hope – that most laudable of human traits.
As we explore the recipe for the current "skills gap stew" and job readiness consequences, we take firm aim on what we see as the best path forward to achieve job readiness in hope of inspiring the higher education industry as a whole and the stakeholders who drive it.