Businesses are getting cheap and lazy. They want a school they don't have to pay for or financially support to churn out exactly the right person they need right now, so they can "right-size" them in 2-4 years.
It should be a schools responsibility to provide basic skill sets that can be expanded in the real world. The school should NOT be responsible for churning out a specificity skilled individual that will be obsolete in 2-4 years.
I have lost track of how many employers have asked me to be an expert on their own implementations. When I tell them I can be in about 2 weeks, they tell me it isn't good enough. I don't even ask for money to retrain, just some time to get up to speed but that isn't good enough.
For me I have about a 2-4 week learning curve with technology that is related to slightly older technology, I do keep myself current but it sometimes seems that you just master a new technology and the next thing is already starting to get some buzz. Plus you never know what to learn until the tail end of the first adopters haven't decided the tech sucks.
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