Executives concluded that the qualifications for many jobs were unnecessarily demanding. Postings might require applicants to have a bachelor’s degree, for example, in jobs that a six-month training course would adequately prepare a person for.
It's scary to think of the total amount of time, energy, and money wasted on unnecessary four-year degrees. The entire model of workers taking out huge loans, often subsidized by the government, in order to (over) train themselves for future employers is so backwards.
“By creating your own dumb barriers, you’re actually making your job in the search for talent harder,” said Obed Louissaint, I.B.M.’s senior vice president for transformation and culture. In working with managers across the company on training initiatives like the one under which Mr. Lorick was hired, “it’s about making managers more accountable for mentoring, developing and building talent versus buying talent.”
It's scary to think of the total amount of time, energy, and money wasted on unnecessary four-year degrees. The entire model of workers taking out huge loans, often subsidized by the government, in order to (over) train themselves for future employers is so backwards.
Real talk. This makes so much sense.
Power to the PEOPLE! It's about damn time that companies start taking care of their employees instead of treating humans like interchangeable parts.