At our recent Techonomy Detroit conference, McKinsey Global Institute director of research Susan Lund shared a worrisome statistic: today four out of five U.S. college graduates can’t find work in their field of study. So how can we get more graduating students into the workforce? According to Lund, we need a radical rethink of American education. “The basic way we educate kids hasn’t really changed in a hundred years,” Lund said. “And what’s needed today are workers of all different sorts, but with more skills.”
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McKinsey’s Susan Lund on Tomorrow’s Workforce
At our recent Techonomy Detroit conference, McKinsey Global Institute director of research Susan Lund shared a worrisome statistic: today four out of five U.S. college graduates can't find work in their field of study. So how can we get more graduating students into the workforce? According to Lund, we need a radical rethink of American education. "The basic way we educate kids hasn't really changed in a hundred years," Lund said. "And what's needed today are workers of all different sorts, but with more skills."
