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Silicon Valley is starting to realize that the huge talent pool of nontraditional candidates may be the answer to its pipeline problem.
The technology industry is now trying to figure out a way to attack its cultural and demographic homogeneity issues. One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees.
IBM's head of talent organization, Sam Ladah, calls this sort of initiative a focus on "new-collar jobs." The idea, he says, is to look toward different applicant pools to find new talent. "We consider them based on their skills," he says, and don't take into account their educational background. This includes applicants who didn't get a four-year degree but have proven their technical knowledge in other ways. Some have technical certifications, and others have enrolled in other skills programs. "We've been very successful in hiring from [coding] bootcamps," says Ladah.
For IT roles, educational pedigree often doesn't make a huge difference. For instance, many gaming aficionados have built their own systems. With this technical grounding, they would likely have the aptitude to be a server technician or a network technician. These roles require specific technical knowledge, not necessarily an academic curriculum vitae. "We're looking for people who have a real passion for technology," says Ladah. He goes on to say that currently about 10% to 15% of IBM's new hires don't have traditional four-year degrees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3069259/why-more-tech-companies-are-hiring-people-without-degrees
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @05:23PM (4 children)
Having a degree is valuable and important.
Look what a prestigious school the president got his degree from.
Yet he is illiterate. Unable to speak a single complete sentence. Incoherent. Misinterprets questions. Uses the same tired excuses as every other illiterate: "I have my kids read it for me", "I have my lawyer read it to me", "I didn't bring my glasses". Really? Every person who can read and needs glasses, always brings their glasses -- so they can read!
There are no examples, but he is probably innumerate as well.
His incoherent thinking is likely related to being illiterate. Reading probably influences your thinking as you grow into adulthood.
Back to the point, look what tremendous value a degree can give you! So obviously degrees are important and tech companies should require them.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:11PM (1 child)
All he seems to do these days is contort a discussion into some poorly crafted dig at Trump.
At least libertroll's stuff is intellectually stimulating.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:15PM
I did not mod him up, too politically trollish for my liking, but my guess is that at least one upvote was from a libertarian / conservative who thought it was indeed a good point about how useless a college education can be. I do appreciate this little bit because it takes a hero of the anti-intellectual, college hating conservative crowd and makes uses him to make their "down with academia" point.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:57PM
He went to the new school for getting his presidents degree, unlike where the previous ones went where they show you how to fuck everything up for everyone but the privileged 1%.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:16PM
Did you think up a loosely connected reason to post JUST to express (probably for the 8th time this morning) your disapproval that the person you wanted didn't get elected?