New Hiring Criteria

One of the tech titans at Davos says tech companies need to change their hiring strategy if they want to have continued success. Ginni Rometty of IBM, noting the anger of people around the world, says that tech companies need to hire on skills, not just degrees.

There’s one little problem with her assessment: a couple of years ago executives were saying they couldn’t find people with the skills they needed. At first it was the hard tech skills they were crying for; then later it was the soft skills. It’s always something, so while I agree with that assessment in light of the cost of higher education, I feel executives need a more wrenching mindset.

Towards the end of the article, the author brought up the recession where a lot of average Americans got hurt while the wealthy and senior executives came out okay.

What’s a correction? That’s when the average person gets fucked, just like they did in the 2008 recession when millions of Americans lost their jobs, their wages were suppressed, and their homes were foreclosed upon. But don’t worry about people like Rometty. They’re going to be just fine. Especially since they’ve gotten so cosy with the Trump regime.

Ibid.

And he made a snarky remark about shareholders.

But at least those companies will get to keep selling their products…right? Can’t let the shareholders down.

Ibid.