In a guest blog spot in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bruce Johnson of Google Atlanta writes:
"There is no single set of discrete skills one can learn that will last an entire career in high-tech. Companies typically care much more about hiring the right kind of person. Ideal recruits are creative, adaptable and autonomous, and they have achieved a deep understanding of core subjects such as math, physics and computer science that make it possible to have a razor-sharp intuition and an ability to assimilate new subjects and technologies quickly, without even the expectation of being trained; they train themselves on the skills du jour as the need arises and with minimum help or structure."
"There is no single set of discrete skills one can learn that will last an entire career in high-tech. Companies typically care much more about hiring the right kind of person. Ideal recruits are creative, adaptable and autonomous, and they have achieved a deep understanding of core subjects such as math, physics and computer science that make it possible to have a razor-sharp intuition and an ability to assimilate new subjects and technologies quickly, without even the expectation of being trained; they train themselves on the skills du jour as the need arises and with minimum help or structure."
Johnson explains that their typical hiring process requires screening thousands of resumes to interview hundreds of people to hire a dozen or so new employees. In order to create the deep pool of qualified applicants for this process, children need to be exposed to computer science, technology, engineering and be instilled with a love of learning, including of math and science, beginning at an early age. To aid in those efforts, Google sponsors Computer Science for High School (http://www.cs4hs.com/) and Google Science Fair, and recommends Computer Science Ed ucation Week events (http://www.csedweek.org/ ).
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