Re: MEDIA: Globalism, end of Socialism causes of jobless recovery

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 00:35:52 MDT


On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:36:51PM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Amara Graps wrote:
> >
> >They suck up an unusually large number of the newly minted
> >PhD astrophysicists and physicists in this part of the Rhein
> >valley. The president is a physicist, himself.
> >
>
> What on earth would a company known for major ERP business
> software be doing with astrophysicists and physicists? Verry
> curious.

An Ericsson executive once told me that they wanted people with a Ph.D.
- what area didn't matter much, the important thing was that by taking a
degree you had proven your ability to learn, research and write, so the
rest was just a bit of retraining for the company :-)

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