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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 VLM on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:43PM
For the good of society we still need to have a broad education
Who's society specifically? That would be an interesting society to participate in or join. Certainly your average diverse area isn't like that, but even whiteopia suburbs aren't like that. How about tribal African areas? Islamic cultures (Like Sweden or London)? Anywhere?
I'm well read, vaguely great books self taught curriculum for a lifetime. And its some good stuff and good for me. And probably good for others. However our culture does not appreciate education, in fact its strongly culturally discouraged beyond the sloganeering and "its all to get a great job" vocational level.
I'm just saying a culture of Katy Perry songs, Survivor and Maury TV shows, no books, pro sports, reddit and twitter social signalling, spending vacation at the beach, and hipster urbanite defining culture solely as "lots of places to get drunk and hook up" doesn't seem to cherish or benefit from or want education.
A lot of it boils down to education means learning ways to think and collecting piles of good things to think about, and in a culture that doesn't value thinking and strongly discourages it as much as possible, its just nostalgia-posting to pine away for some kind of American anglophile imaginary retro nostalgia for a thinking mans empire that probably never existed for most of its members and certainly doesn't "work" now.
For example what gets you laid more, red pill science or theologically devout hipster male-feminist liberalism beta behavior around women? It seems obvious which approach to culture is more successful in practice and which is more sloganeered nostalgia LARPing. Yeah it seems obnoxiously superficial yet isn't mate-selection kinda important for a culture? What does "The Big Bang Theory" imply about what stupid normies think culturally and socially about smart people? Because we live in a trivial culture, the examples are all going to look trivial, so the examples being lame proves nothing.