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According to Cook, there are certain in-demand skills that students may not learn in college — namely, coding.
"And so to that end, as we've looked at the — sort of, the mismatch between the skills that are coming out of colleges and what the skills are that we believe we need in the future, and many other businesses do, we've identified coding as a very key one," Cook said during the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting on Wednesday, during which President Trump met with the board's members, including Cook.
Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree.
The Apple CEO also said he believes that it should be a requirement for every kid in the U.S. to have some level of coding education before they graduate high school. Apple launched its Everyone Can Code program in 2016, a curriculum designed to help students from Kindergarten to college learn coding. There are 4,000 schools in the US using Apple's curriculum, according to Cook.
Save yourself the cost of college: Learn to Code?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday March 09 2019, @11:00PM (3 children)
Well, here's the easy initial test [codinghorror.com] to calibrate your candidates amongst the greater field.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday March 10 2019, @12:51AM (2 children)
The opposite side of that coin are HR people who can't tell a competent coder from a dead dog.
Or, they get weird and won't hire the best even when they have correctly identified them. Keep coming up with Kafkaesque reasons why an excellent coder will not do. Won't be a "good fit", is too independent, isn't desperate enough for money because no spouse and kids, is a flight risk, doesn't have 10 years of experience with Windows 10, or 5 years experience in each of 20 different technologies, is too smart, etc. And sometimes the real reason is "isn't the boss's nephew". They may be a sweatshop with a world view that in essence is that slaves are better workers than free people. Naturally, can't let in any subversive, rogue coders who might do something completely unacceptable like try to start a union.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 10 2019, @01:55AM
Ha, ha!
And the other (I would say more frequently encountered) side of the coin: the companies that only want young, single engineers.
The kind of employees who see no problem "living" at the office and doing uncompensated "research work" on weekends and travelling for weeks at a time on short notice.
All because they have no family waiting for them when the workday is done.
These people are slaves and DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday March 10 2019, @08:18AM
Shortly followed by, "job security in cleaning up the mess he left."