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Departments of education and school districts always have to make decisions about what to include in their curriculum.  There are a lot of life skills that people need that aren't taught in school.  The question is should those skills be taught in schools?I teach high school, so I'll talk about that.  The typical high school curriculum is supposed to give students a broad-based education that prepares them to be citizens in a democracy and to be able to think critically.  For a democracy to work, we need educated, discerning citizens with the ability to make good decisions based on evidence and objective thought.  In theory, people who are well informed about history, culture, science, mathematics, etc., and are capable of critical, unbiased thinking, will have the tools to participate in a democracy and make good decisions for themselves and for society at large.  In addition to that, they should be learning how to be learners, how to do effective, basic research, and collaborate with other people.  If that happens, figuring out how to do procedural tasks in real life should not provide much of a challenge.  We can't possibly teach every necessary life skill people need, but we can help students become better at knowing how to acquire the skills they need.  Should we teach them how to change a tire when they can easily consult a book or search the internet to find step by step instructions for that?  Should we teach them how to balance a check book or teach them how to think mathematically and make sense of problems so that the simple task of balancing a check book (which requires simple arithmetic and the ability to enter numbers and words in columns and rows in obvious ways) is easy for them to figure out.  If we teach them to be good at critical thinking and have some problem solving skills they will be able to apply those overarching skills to all sorts of every day tasks that shouldn't be difficult for someone with decent cognitive ability  to figure out.  It's analogous to asking why a culinary school didn't teach its students the steps and ingredients to a specific recipe.  The school taught them about more general food preparation and food science skills so that they can figure out how to make a lot of specific recipes without much trouble.  They're also able to create their own recipes.So, do we want citizens with very specific skill sets that they need to get through day to day life or do we want citizens with critical thinking, problem solving, and other overarching cognitive skills that will allow them to easily acquire ANY simple, procedural skill they may come to need at any point in their lives?

Get an introduction to the target company through a referral if possible.  A lot of the companies that retain us even talk explicitly about "no agency referrals" on their website.  There are times that going in through HR or their staffing org can be to your benefit but more often that not it helps to have a referral with a "VP" in their title to get you that introduction.  You might still be a long way from getting a fee agreement signed (retained or contingent) but you'll be a lot close than being one of the hundreds of agency recruiters leaving voicemails for the VP HR or Staffing Manager.

Learning technologies depends on the line of employment that you choose to take up throughout your life, without changing stream as long as 10 years. Once you have clarity about your likes and dislikes then you can learn and get certified by learning the technologies and get certified, getting certified allows you to show your skill level and helps you push your resume/CV ahead of others applying for similar role. One thing that you need to understand is that by showing just your marks and studies that you have undertaken do not help the employers to pick you, you need to show them your zeal to learn new technologies.There are many certification course based upon the stream of work that you opt like analytics, developer, Administrator, etc. So, firstly you need to take up the SWOT Analysis and decide what drives you to push the extra hour so that you do not run away from the work at hand. You are the one who can solely decide your path.Once after you have decided what line of work that will drive you and your carrier then depending on that you need to learn technologies that will aid you to grow in this competitive world. If your apptitude is good and you like solving puzzles and riddles i would suggest you take up analytics stream, also if you choose this field then learn and get certified in SAS technology which is being looked up by many companies around the world. So, intutively decide and take the right carrier step that suits you and your goal. All the best!Hope this helps!

The assumption in the question is incorrect.China doesn’t “steal” high-tech technologies, I think you are referring to “some companies in China”. China is a developing country and doesn’t have a perfect system to protect IP (as with many, many other countries), there are always bad actors in every country that “steal” high-tech technology, including here in America.However, many technology transfers are legally paid transfers with both sides in agreement. China has also taken many serious steps to improve foreign IP rights. It’s been unfairly singled out as a scapegoat, as it’s considerably improved the legal environment relative to other countries.If you don’t believe it, here’s the evidence: China’s legal system actually favors foreign companies in terms of patent litigation over many cases. In fact, many companies are moving to China because of the better legal system, according to WSJ: China’s Patent-Lawsuit Profile GrowsOn a patent-licensing lawsuit brought in China wholly by choice by a Canadian company, WiLAN Inc., versus Japanese electronics company Sony Corporation:Ottawa-based WiLAN Inc., which earns revenue by licensing its patents, filed a suit against Sony last week in a court in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, alleging that the Japanese company’s smartphones violated its wireless-communication-technology patent, according to the filing reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.If you look at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s International IP Index China ranks 25th out of 50 countries. China has made reforms on patents and raised awareness on IP rights.William Weightman, a Fulbright Fellow researching IP in China, wrote the country has shown serious resolve: China's Progress on Intellectual Property Rights (Yes, Really)If you really want to equate this all to “high-tech theft” through warped logic, China is owed payment for royalties involving the invention of paper, gunpowder, printing, the compass and more (including the first calculator in ever single computer), since about 200 AD. Every thieving Western country using any of these inventions owes at least inflation adjusted trillions in royalties.

Anything in IT but into the front seat of the business all gets you good bugs in any sector that is Sales, it is not for faint hearts but the bonus, incentives and perks you get in sales is compare to any other field is better.If you want to just get salary , settle down life with family work 9 - 5 coz you have to go for technical programming coding in java, .net. html, php, ios, Android or anything on the software end SAP, oracle, JDEdwards, PeopleSoft, Salesforce & etc.But if you are looking to get an edge and value based career go into sales of any stream you will lead.

You will never be a billionaire….You are asking the question in order to validate the answer you are looking for. The answer you want is NO. No, you will never be a billionaire.Let me explain…the average human on this lovely planet is nurtured from birth to accept disappointment. He is groomed to be able to digest NO. He anticipates failure and lives off it the way he lives off oxygen. The human or poor people hates hope unless hope comes without the effort of real work. Poor people will go through the motions of asking the same question in a thousand different ways until they find the comfortable : No!I don't know if you consider yourself poor. If you are then I would ask you what exactly you are looking for. The question you asked has been answered a million times here. The only reason it comes up daily on Quora is mainly because the answers are a source of poverty therapy and blissful inaction without having to deal with the guilt of ineptitude. This question will be asked again tomorrow by a different person who will read the steps to becoming rich, get intimidated by the work required and walk away from the advice.This crazy behaviour is the reason only 2 percent of the global population are financially independent. It requires work and an altered mindset.The garden variety human has an embedded kill-switch that kicks in when they leave their comfort poverty zone. When the kill- switch is activated, it causes unexplained fear and dizziness which is similar to the vertigo you experience when you are scared of heights. Getting rich is a high level business and not for the faint hearted. This weird feeling causes paralysis of all thought and limbs, while also causing the victim to close their eyes the way you did when you were a child and hid under the bed from monsters that never came. The more information you receive about how to get rich, the more you sweat with anxiety, you get overwhelmed by hope until you can't take it anymore and you retreat to familiar territory, the 98 percent territory.You will not be a billionaire because it scares the sh*t out of you to actually try to become one. Your mind will say to you : it can't be you, it's too good to be true, let me take a nap and see how I see things tomorrow, let me watch one more box set and then I will really get started on the advice I got, maybe I'm just unlucky so why bother, let me buy a lottery ticket to get start up capital, I think I need one more motivational seminar before I start, etc.These thoughts are all designed to manufacture the real answer you want, failure, in order to explain why you aren't rich like your high school classmate.The kill switch is the reason why get rich quick scams continue to be successful. The gravitation towards comfort poverty is fertile hunting ground for commercially minded religious pastors who rob poor people blind over and over again. The scam formula is easy: sell cheap accesible hope, give as little information as possible, bottle it or package it so that it's believable….then find one million poor people. They will stampede to buy magical wealth portions from you compared to free advice from a billionaire. It is not human nature to be poor is human nurture.Alter your basic beliefs about money, change the No that's embedded in you to a Yes.