Happy Monday monkeys,
According to the article you can read here tech companies in Silicon Valley are hiring from a talent pool they believe can help their success. This pool is specifically in the tech sector, and applicants are those without college degrees.
Trump has had a mission to bring jobs back to individuals without secondary education, and though this isn't a Trump specific program, it lines up with his theory that people without secondary education are a valuable asset to the success of companies.
From the artlice;
The most prominent way that tech companies now try to seek out these new pipelines is through other organizations. Intel, for example, invests in the program CODE 2040, which aims to build pathways for underrepresented minority youth to enter the technology space. Likewise, GitHub has partnered with coding-focused enrichment programs like Operation Code, Hackbright, and Code Tenderloin.
Whats the thought hear monkeys? do you believe that secondary education is extremely important to career success? Do you think that eventually secondary education will not be a requirement for banking or high finance related industries? I have an interesting opinion in that if we eliminated GED work (first two years of school) that students could finish degrees quicker while focusing more on what they want to pursue. I know in my college experience that I have taken some very useless classes in my career, astronomy and geology are a great example of this. My university requires students in the business school to take two lab science classes, even though I have never wanted to pursue any form of science based career. I understand the benefits of taking writing classes, and maybe can see the benefits in taking political courses as well, however I do not believe that most GED courses are worth the time and money that are required to complete them.
This talent pool program is likely to offer good jobs for the native Americans and help to get rid of unemployment to a great extent.
any sources on that? why just native americans?
I know of a couple of people here in the valley without college degrees and are doing quite well. I know one who took CS classes at the local college since junior high and completed most of the undergraduate coursework by the time he graduated high school so he didn't see the need to attend college. Another one dropped out of college to run a business for a couple years and then gone to HBS to get his MBA in lieu of a college degree.
Overall I'd say it's becoming quite common in the bay area.
wow thats a fascinating story... impressive. Way more common in the bay area though.
I have a couple of friends who fit this bill. Both dropped out of college and have had jobs that pay well since then - neither was a CS major. The thing with people like this is they had either a family member that showed them the ropes from a very young age - think mobile internet in the late 90's type of exposure. They were learning about coding, network structure and general computer science while their classmates were learning how to type.
I don't have a degree and work in FinTech. Technology has been great and has a very enjoyable culture.
You can definitely go places in the sector without a degree unlike finance where you probably won't even get a job as an admin assistant w/o a bachelors anymore.
I don't know, my Meteorology 112 lab science and other GEDs have proven incredibly useful... in that I always have anecdotes about how useless GEDs are.
I feel like you could finish a degree/major in 2 years with no GEDs. Then again, who wants to cut the best time of your life short by half?
Undergraduate degrees are borderline irrelevant unless you are in a science degree. A semester of corporate finance can be learned by reading and following Investopedia exmaples for a week or two. There's enough analysis on the internet to become a strong English "major", if you are willing to put the effort in.
In my eyes, unless it really requires a lab to understand the concept, how much will the course actually be needed in the real world. That being said, I don't believe the other classes are useless, you just don't need them in the real world to be a productive employee (GEDs 99% of the time). The extra 2 years definitely help with the "finding yourself" part. I know it did for me
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