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posted by janrinok on Sunday January 21 2018, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the apparently-you-need-an-assistant dept.

Coding is a vital component of tech education, but it won't be enough to sustain the next generation of workers.

[...] Pichai notes that workers today are required to have skills that scarcely existed five years ago, such as an administrative assistant needing to use online programs to run budgets, scheduling and accounting, among other tasks.

And he says these skills are much easier to learn than coding, pointing to $1 billion in new initiatives Google unveiled last year aimed at training and educating workers to help them find jobs and grow their businesses.

"Through these trainings, people learn about using technology to research, to plan events, analyze data and more," Pichai wrote. "They don't require a formal degree or certificate."

[...] "We should make sure that the next generation of jobs are good jobs, in every sense," Pichai wrote. "Rather than thinking of education as the opening act, we need to make sure it's a constant, natural and simple act across life -- with lightweight, flexible courses, skills and programs available to everyone."


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:20PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:20PM (#625705)

    workers today are required to have skills that scarcely existed five years ago

    That's a feature not a bug if you're trying to implement ageism to keep salary costs down.

    Also highlights the disconnect in reality in HR. Once you're employed at a company its nothing but an endless stream of "We're gonna implement whacked out technology X next monday so best get used to it" and given high enough IQ coworkers it generally works out vs "we can only hire someone with over 11 years of senior level experience with technology X (that was invented 3 years ago) (and for ageism reasons we won't hire anyone over 30 to save money, so unless you graduated college and started using tech X before age 19 we're not interested)"

    Being a bit of a smartass I'm not sure there exist any non-hyperspecific skills newer than five years. Yes I know the reference is a thinly veiled comment about Quickbooks Online which is four years old, but that is ridiculously hyper specific.

    with lightweight, flexible courses, skills and programs available to everyone

    Annihilation of the concept of self education, in pursuit of profit of course. Self education might interfere with the planned indoctrination, ya know.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:43PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:43PM (#625819)

    11 years of senior level experience with technology X (that was invented 3 years ago)

    I went on a number of interviews where the job ended up going to an internal candidate, the more candid hiring managers came clean with "well, we're required to do outside interviews, but we really knew we were going to use John for this from the beginning..."

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:55PM (#625828)

      If they were really doing that, they certainly wouldn't tell you about it, thus risking an investigation as well as their own job.