College career path ‘over’ as skilled trade get 30% pay bump, recruitment giant says

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• In this article RAND-NL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Female apprentice engineer working with CNC machine in factory Witthaya Prasongsin | Moment | Getty Images The days of going to college to secure a lucrative career are over, as skilled trade workers have seen a 30% wage bump in the past few years, the CEO of the world's largest recruitment firm told CNBC.
• Sander van't Noordende, CEO of Dutch staffing giant Randstad, recommended the skilled trades career track to young people in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Wednesday.
• "I would say the days of going to college and doing something in an office, they are over," Noordende said.
• "You've got to be smarter than that.
• I think technology, any kind of technology, is still a good career trajectory.