Businesses don’t want your business degree, apparently
Apr 5, 2012, 12:07 PM | Updated: Apr 11, 2012, 6:22 am
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The recession has led to a slew of problems, particularly for young
college graduates, trying to get their first, career -defining job. Some college-aged kids have even opted to not go to
college, to make self-made men or women out of
themselves.
That approach has been particularly popular in the tech
industry, where giants like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs were college dropouts
with ideas too big for colleges to handle.
But, young students have also been making moves to get
degrees that would make them more marketable once they hit
the job market, and doesn’t business sound like a sensible degree?
Yet more and more recruiters that hire recent grads are
shying away from business degree-holders, according to the
Wall Street Journal. Apparently, those students don’t have the
critical thinking skills that are developed when studying
liberal arts.
Business degrees offer the “nuts and bolts” of the white
collar trade. Recruiters have been saying, however, that
it’s the nuts and bolts that are easiest to include in on-
the-job training. What’s not as easy is developing the
analytic, debating, idea-spawning skills that come from
classrooms varied in subjects like those offered at liberal arts colleges.
It’s great news for English or philosophy majors. Often
the butt of jokes in the job world, (you know, as a great
way to get a job in the food-service industry) these well
read and eager to debate-types are proving their own
job market value. They do more than just read.
That doesn’t mean recent high school grads should bank on
a liberal arts education. One of the most in demand fields
is still tech. Companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook
continue to grow, which means they’ll continue to wade through piles of resumes to fill new positions. The seemingly continuous growth in tech will
be good for the Seattle area,
one of our city’s most popular career fields.
