There is a lot of fluff flying about as to redoing the SATs and possibly the ACTs in reaction to that. The SAT's decision to do away with the essay portion of the tests is possibly the most colossally stupid move that they could have made.
I swear...I would like to take all of these "universal test" organizations into a waterproof room and then fill it with water!. They are SO out of touch with the real world.
I have been involved in hiring on and off for the last decade either as an advisor to a hiring manager or a hiring manager myself. And I can tell you plainly, I have never been so disappointed with the candidates presented to me. I mean, most recruiters are absolutely, completely worthless, lets face facts - it is an easy field to get into and you don't even have to really understand who you are recruiting.
But the candidates they do send are even worse. We live in a flat world which is a world of ideas which people much smarter than me have written about.
We live in a world where ideas are really the only marketable item for the future...and our college graduates cannot express their ideas in any intelligible format (believe me I have tried to extract/read them).
If you have the greatest idea in the world you have to be able to intelligently express it, support it, and define it in terms the world will understand and accept.
Facebook/Twitter ain't going to make it folks....
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