How to Get a Job at Google: Rsp to NYTimes Tom Friedman #FutureEd

By Cathy Davidson. Usually when my blogs are a "response to the New York Times,"  it is to disagree, push back, emend, quibble, or rant.   Today, I am reading Thomas Friedman's "How To Get a Job at Google, Part II," with enormous pleasure and satisfaction and a sense of confirmation.   Friedman's interview with Laszlo Bock, the man in charge of all hiring at Google, confirms what I have learned from many workshops and interviews with both job recruiters and CEOs of Fortune 100 companies. They often share our #FutureEd vision for higher education:   the single most important thing anyone can do in college is think deeply, profoundly, and strategically about why you are there--and what you want to take away from the most diverse, intense, rich learning opportunities you will ever be given the time to embrace. More...