Davos delegates call for university-to-job schemes

By Jan Petter Myklebust. When 2,500 global leaders met in Davos last week, one open agenda session asked – “Unemployed or Unemployable?” The discussants called for more flexibility in the transfer from higher education to work.
“Globally, there is a need to create 600 million productive jobs over the next decade, and the number of university graduates is higher than ever before, yet businesses are struggling to find skilled talent to hire,” said the programme.
“How can this gap be bridged? Is the education system at fault, or are the unemployed? Is unemployment high because of economic policy?”
Professor Peter Cappelli of Wharton illustrated the mismatch between graduate numbers and skills shortages by asking if anyone on the panel or in the audience personally knew a person who was currently unemployed. Read more...