Job market motto:”please come home” March 19, 2008

i read an article about an ingenious idea: a Romanian job market organized in Italy for Romanians that work there. They had 700 curious people and almost 7000 jobs. All of them in constructions.

i think this is great strategy…let’s see how it works…

but how about schools? these guys will get old, and i don’t remember hearing of “constructions high school” or something similar. is the ministry going to re-”build” these schools? and…also “re-brand” them?

in Switzerland almost 90% of the young people go to a “profession school” because they consider it takes too long to pursue an university and is too much theory…

on the other hand i guess Ph.D.s are most of the time pursued just to follow your passion or to get a salary in no matter what field…delaying the moment when you will have to “face it” and actually get a job…

so is the future going to bring us only 10-12 years of school? could it be that our kids will study gymnasium and than a “profession school”, gaining practical experience from 14 years old and than study an “online university” while being an employee? or maybe the employer, desperate for workforce, might offer them courses in exchange for a “10 years” contract?

i think the way things are in Romania right now contradict a lot with the spirit Generation Y has, and many changes have to happen in education and companies’ attitudes. and i bet these changes will be huge in 5 years from now…