I was being facetious, although it looks like some took it to heart lmao.

Anyway, I completely agree on the STEM point. I’d wager to say it’s even worse than that. Even TEM isn’t guaranteed to get you a job anymore based on HR incompetency alone.

In my neck of the woods, I’ll commonly find job listings for Business/Data Analyst and Data Science all combined into one underpaid mess. i.e. “Business/Data Analyst with Data Science”. That job title alone makes me want to vomit. Then they will list a requirement for subject matter expertise in (some unrelated industry here).

First of all, business analysis and data analysis are two completely different disciplines. Other than the baseline expectation of Excel and SQL knowledge overlap, they have little to do with each other in terms of deliverables. Second, Data Scientists need hardcore math and programming skills that neither career business or data analysts are likely to have.

Out of curiosity one day, I fudged my resume to fit a job with the aforementioned title (one that actually had accurate responsibilities of all three positions for once). Guess what they paid? 90k.

It was that day that I knew we had a problem beyond poor student choices. There is cascading rot from the top down and nobody knows how to properly leverage talent anymore.