Alan Bourke wrote: Alan you must have noticed the recent press comments from our Tech Export Sector that they hire at best from Trinity, UCD and UCC and avoid the rest. Years ago we used hire engineers each June. Hardware people who had never seen any US industrial IC documentation were common then. The Head of one institution responded to my complaints that none of his staff had any such experience. Times don't seem to have changed much. Scale is such an important factor. William.
> Interesting what you say about degrees. I've never had direct experience > of the US but the impression I get is that often someone straight out of > college with a degree and no experience would have a better chance than > someone with perhaps lesser educational paper and proven years of > success in the field. I think it's the opposite way round here in > Ireland/UK, largely. > > There are an awful lot of useless people holding degrees, especially > these days - I don't know about the US but here it has become very > devalued because any idiot can get one eventually. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
