{"id":722,"date":"2007-06-11T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2007-06-11T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T09:01:11","slug":"we-don%e2%80%99t-have-the-infrastructure-to-develop-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Have the Infrastructure to Develop Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent New York Times article<\/a> ran a story about the increasingly large volumes of college applicants and the decreasing rates of admittance rates for college bound high school students.\u00a0 While this trend has been going on in the U.S. for several years, many of us in HR have been having a concurrent discussion about the talent shortage that is impending in the industrialized world.\u00a0 While one of the core problems is that the generation of workers after the baby boomers is not large enough to fill the void of senior talent and executive leadership positions when those baby boomers retire, another very real problem is that we simply don\u2019t have the infrastructure needed to produce the right skills needed for the future knowledge economy.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s think about a bit of history.\u00a0 Back when the baby boomers were entering the workforce, many of the jobs were still industrial jobs.\u00a0 For these types of work, this generation was often employed out of high school and trained on the job until they became managers.\u00a0 Often, these workers went back to school later when they could afford it, but a college education was not absolutely necessary back then.\u00a0 Move into the next (smaller) generation, those coming out of high school in say the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s.\u00a0 As knowledge work became increasingly important, there was enough infrastructure to accommodate the volume of applicants, and educate them into the workforce.\u00a0 This generation now forms the core and future of the knowledge economy \u2013 they are the ones with the big shoes to fill.<\/p>\n

Today, we have the children of the baby boomers (\u201cmillennials\u201d) trying to get educated.\u00a0 No longer is it possible to employ masses of workers in the U.S. through industrial work.\u00a0 We need these millennials to be highly trained, analytical, creative and innovative knowledge workers.\u00a0 The problem is that we\u2019ve never had this need at this level of capacity before.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not as though we\u2019ve been building universities like the Chinese and Indian\u2019s have for the last 2 decades.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also mentioned in several places the millennials are likely to be \u201cdifferent.\u201d\u00a0 They have a view that is more in tune with the globe, and they also have a tendency to want a better balance between their work and life.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to contradict myself here and note that with all the \u201csoccer moms\u201d taking their over achieving kids to soccer, violin, debate team, and chess club, all the while running a 4.5 GPA and scoring 2400 on the SAT, this seems to be one of the most ambitious generations we\u2019ve ever had.\u00a0 It would seem that they want the opportunities, they want to learn, and make lots of money.\u00a0 But if you\u2019re perfect, and still can\u2019t get into Harvard, Columbia or Yale, what do you do?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have enough of a problem adjusting to the style of this generation.\u00a0 We already know we need to develop their talent, but we\u2019re starting off with a handicap if our national education infrastructure isn\u2019t ready for them, or out future economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent New York Times article ran a story about the increasingly large volumes of college applicants and the decreasing rates of admittance rates for college bound high school students.\u00a0 While this trend has been going on in the U.S….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-learning-management","category-talent-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}