Guadalajara, Jal. 60% of the companies that arrive in Mexico refer to “that people are not sufficiently specialized or with sufficient experience,” he said Altagracia GómezNational Coordinator of the Business Council of the Government of Mexico.
Within the framework of the inauguration of Talent Land, which In this eighth edition it is aimed at older professionals – between 30 and 50 years old—Gómez Sierra stressed: “There is a chamba to do by companies, by both higher secondary education institutions and higher education, particularly the upper average, because for the vast majority of Mexicans this is the last step before moving to their work, and the government too.”
After underlineing that Mexico is among the 10 countries with more graduates of engineering races and with more graduates in Stem racesthe coordinator of the Business Advisory Council indicated that it is necessary to work in a coordinated manner, companies, universities and government, so that all this talent does not exist only on paper and in university degrees, but in the resolution of problems and in added value within all production processes.
When questioned about the talent required by the country so that the Mexico Plan From the Federal Government it is a reality, Altagracia Gómez stressed that it is necessary to continue working on dual education programs but, above all, reinforce the skills (skills) of both students and professionals.
“We need to train ourselves more and better; Reskilling and Upskilling To whom you are inviting people from up to 30 years it is very important and that within our education we will find a time to strengthen the so -called emotional intelligence soft skills, teamwork, creative and critical thinking, of the ability to be disruptive and to be destructive and the ability to make sense of urgency to do things with priority, “he said.
“Within these careers, within these professions, what companies are most valued is knowing how to learn. In a world with so many changes, and even that the decade will continue to be many changes, what is most valued is someone who knows how to learn,” he said.
“I believe that for many young people the frustration that both education and work have in certain senses, is that it has ceased to be a source of social mobility; it is not the frustration of the opportunities that you do not have at birth, but the determination that as you are born you will die and that education is not being the difference and that the work is not being the difference to be able to rise,” said Gómez Sierra.
In the eighth edition of Talent Land that started Monday in Expo Guadalajaramore than 30,000 people participate. According to the organizers, this edition is aimed at older professionals with the objective that they can update and convert their talents to adapt to the current and future needs of the labor market and face the challenges of technological innovation.
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