
U.S. Companies Turn to German Vocational Training Model to Fill Jobs Gap - jseliger
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-companies-turn-to-german-training-model-to-fill-jobs-gap-1474911069
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eonw
I grew up in the US and worked in Austria for a number of years in my
twenties, I was always impressed with this part of their education and
professional process, always wondered when American companies would get smart
and follow suit.

Many jobs don't need a degree, they just need you to know how to do one thing
really well. A short well focused training program would do that.

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segmondy
Yeah, but will the students stay? Or will they take their free training and go
elsewhere?

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eonw
Lets take an example like a auto body shop(i knew a guy in Austria that owned
one and did training), although they could take the skills he had taught them
elsewhere, he could also hire off of his competitors as well. Some could start
their own thing, but not everyone is meant or wants to run a business.

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Futurebot
I posted an Ask HN related to this, would love to get some feedback on it:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561580](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561580)

Short version:

Does anyone do this in software for certain specialties (like application
security, DevOps, etc.) either for people with no experience (or more likely)
generalist dev experience? What Dan Luu termed "trainingball" and what
Matasano (sort of?) used to do with its proverbial .NET programmers:

[https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/](https://danluu.com/programmer-
moneyball/)

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7260087](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7260087)

