CAREER OUTLOOK
y the time you read this, either U.S. individuals and public, private, and nonprofit organizations will be adapting to the raft of cuts and taxes that became automatic after January 1, 2013, or an economic budget compromise will have been achieved.
Job Horizon B
Regardless of how the economic wrangle ended, corporate and government leaders across political parties have gained vital knowledge. For some, the knowledge was that The Great Recession, the 21st century’s Depression, showed them that they could maintain equilibrium during financial free-fall.
Others in private industry, including Fortune 1,000 CEOs, realized that they could make profits, or even record ones, after workers were fired, pensions were reduced or eliminated, and other personnel costs were slashed.
That was not good news for employees, but one group can take heart. Would-be and full-time undergraduate, graduate, and post- doctoral science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students can be sure of one thing: their skills sets are always valu- able.
Two words for STEM students: Don’t Panic Regardless of the sequestration’s out- come, individuals and organizations must continue to feed, warm, cool, protect, teach, care for, provide services to, and sell prod- ucts to one another. That is where you and your talents come in. Even in a worst-case economic scenario,
when organizations initially don’t appear as if they will ever hire again, that’s foolish talk. Millions of Baby Boomers are retiring and must be replaced. You, their replace- ments, as contemporary students, unlike your parents, live and breathe the digital air that affects every aspect of STEM and are geared to continually upgrade your knowledge and to use it to your own, and the nation’s, advantage. Old industries and the public sector must retrofit to ac- commodate, respectively, consumer and citizen demands. New industries will appear and CEOs will adapt or face dismissal. Politicians in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and finally facing
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the prospect of ongoing dramatic weather events, have become suddenly serious about renovating and expanding the capacity and security of coasts, roads, tunnels, railways, airports, harbors, and water and power networks.
The United States has no choice but to move forward, and STEM students are better positioned to be hired than those with soft skills. That’s reality.
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