What the real truth is
The comment that employers want STUDENTS means they want CHEAP. Seasoned professionals are never cheap. It takes years to develope people skills and students have neither those skills nor accumulated tech skills unless you count a diploma and a piece of Microsoft paper as real skills which also accounts for our continuing reliance on India as another resource of high IT tech and skill sets. I love reading the job postings for STUDENT DESIRED with a LONG LIST OF MICROSOFT and ORACLE and JAVA and APPLE subsets. You have to KNOW this stuff and students monkeying around in their dorms rarely touch it. Some do, a few, but the vast majority do not.
Employers want cheap, pure and simple. Just ask IBM.
