WHITE COLLAR | ISSUE 011
the world needs more
Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook; STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) powers all these giants. These four interdisciplinary subjects are more important today than at any point in human history. The increased momentum in growth, integration, and competition of the global economy has only served to fan the flame around the debate on the increasing importance of, and competitiveness in, STEM-related fields. STEM professionals form the backbone of every modern industry. These people built telescopes that allow us to peer into hidden worlds, invented machines that dragged the world into the Industrial Age, develop vaccines to fight highly infectious diseases, created the Internet, and construct the impressive skylines that define our cities today. Several industry insights confirm that careers in such fields remain the most lucrative and sought after in the world. This isn’t simply because they out-earn all other non-STEM fields by up to 30 percent. Today, many countries are in the midst of acute shortages of STEM professionals.
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A MAGAZINE FOR THE CAREER-PERSON AND ENTREPRENEUR
