On the ineffectiveness of government retraining programs

Megan McArdle - Retraining Isn’t the Answer : Thus did I make one of the best and worst decisions in my life: I signed up for a course to become a CNE–a Certified Netware Engineer. I’d done some light network administration at the startup, and I thought I’d like to make a career of it. The IT types among my readers are cringing. No one gets hired because they took some low-rent course and passed a computer adaptive test. Indeed, back in the day, hearing someone officiously announce th