Originally Posted by
davewerden
Right back at'cha, Gary! This is something that I've seen reinforced tons of times in my latter career. But of course that is still anecdotal.
But from my two examples, I came away with these tidbits:
- The I.T. department of a major corporation chose to recruit previously unknown candidates from the pool of music teachers.
- A successful regional tech company deliberately went to a music school to recruit people they did not otherwise know.
Both of which COULD be alternatively explained by the realizing the readiness of teachers (and very likely particularly music teachers) and would-be musicians to jump at the chance for a well-paying regular job with actual benefits. Especially for entry-level jobs, it's a lot easier (and cheaper and less time consuming) to go where you know you have a good chance of landing the fish. But we do have to acknowledge that these companies very likely were not devoting such effort to recruiting social studies teachers.
Gary Merrill
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