[Video] Are Employers Desperate to Hire Nerds? (2023)

Thirty minute video on whether technology employers are desperate to hire nerds as suggested by pervasive and perennial STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) worker shortage claims. Updates and extends earlier videos on the topic for 2024.

Selected References

STEM Shortage Articles Dated 2023 or so

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1883726 (reference from Ron Hira article above)

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dynamic Shortages and Price Rises: The Engineer-Scientist Case
Kenneth J. Arrow and William M. Capron

The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Vol. 73, No. 2 (May, 1959), pp. 292-308 (17 pages)
Published By: Oxford University Press

https://doi.org/10.2307/1883726

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/09/13/stem-workforce-shortage-semiconductor-manufacturing-race/70721967007/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stem-workforce-shortages-myth-ron-hira/

https://www.uschamberfoundation.org/education/addressing-stem-workforce-shortage
October 2022

https://defensecommunities.org/2021/02/dib-report-reveals-u-s-stem-shortage-as-major-vulnerability-to-national-defense/ (Feb 16, 2021)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/report-pentagon-says-stem-education-deficit-weakening-america-177680 (Feb 7, 2021)

https://www.csis.org/blogs/perspectives-innovation/us-should-strengthen-stem-education-remain-globally-competitive

https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/CWB.html

American Physics and the Cold War Bubble
by David Kaiser MIT

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11111899/

David Kaiser video
https://youtu.be/LccErLv1ugE

https://hbr.org/2020/02/how-to-be-the-purple-squirrel-employers-are-looking-for

MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE ARTICLES ON STEM SHORTAGE CLAIMS

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Next Step Toastmasters Meeting Dec 10 2023

NextStep Toastmasters Meeting December 10, 2023

Meeting Time: 2nd Sunday of each month, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Next Step Toastmasters hosts educational workshops on a bi-monthly basis. These educationals are conducted by an advanced member, a speaker from District 101 or a Toastmaster who is a recognized expert. For sessions that don’t have scheduled educationals, we provide the opportunity for longer and more speeches by members and additional speakers.

1:45 pm: Registration
2:00 pm: Educational session (if applicable)
3:00 pm: Club meeting, with advanced speeches and evaluations
4:00 pm: Adjourn / Socialize

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For meetings without an educational, we will have a normal club meeting from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.

We have a new in-person meeting location:

The branch library is closed on Sunday, however the club meets in the community room attached to the library. The door to the community room is on the far left edge of this photo below.

Community Room, San Jose Public Library, Willow Glen Branch
1157 Minnesota Avenue
San Jose, CA 95152
https://www.sjpl.org/locations/willow-glen/

(C) 2023 by John F. McGowan, Ph.D.

About Me

John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).