{"id":15912,"date":"2021-01-01T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T11:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2021-01-01T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T11:09:29","slug":"silicon-valley-dice-adios-a-los-universitarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/blog\/silicon-valley-dice-adios-a-los-universitarios\/","title":{"rendered":"SILICON VALLEY SAYS GOODBYE TO COLLEGE STUDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech giants are starting to change their \u201crecruitment\u201d methods. Apple, Microsoft and IBM, among others, have abandoned their stubbornness and are beginning to look for talent outside of elite universities. This time for real. Hiring managers have focused on the distinct skills and experiences of each candidate. Now, their passions, hobbies, efforts and abilities matter. But what is the reason for this change?<\/p>\n

Laszlo Bock, Google's Senior Vice President of People Operations, broke the mould five years ago in the alternative search for talent. He stated that \u201cThe academic transcript is useless<\/a>\u201dand that there was practically no connection between what was taught at university and the work done at the company. This is how a huge barrier to entry into multinational companies started to break down. Firstly, because it allowed workers not from \u201ctop\u201d universities to enter. Secondly, because the world of technology is opening up to profiles that we would never have imagined in this sector before.<\/p>\n

The figures for Information is Beautiful<\/a> Studies on diversity in technology companies demonstrate this. For example, the number of women working in these companies is steadily increasing. However, only five companies have more than 40% female employees. Asian employees are also making a strong mark in this market. A total of eight companies have 40% or more employees of this origin.<\/p>\n

Narra Cult of Mac<\/a>, Apple's job postings reveal that experience is most valued, regardless of where or how different skills were obtained. IBM's Vice President of Talent, Joanna Daley, confirmed in an interview<\/a> that 15% of the company\u2019s employees in the US do not hold a university degree. Now, rather than focusing exclusively on candidates who have attended university, IBM is looking for them elsewhere, through training programmes accessible to those with initiative and a desire to learn to code.<\/p>\n

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This is how it arises IMMUNE<\/a>, with the aim of providing quality training that is accessible to everyone. Furthermore, thanks to its collaborative dynamic between students and trial-and-error, learning is more successful.<\/p>\n

Methods are gradually being developed that are equal to, or even more successful than, university education. The world is advancing at an unstoppable pace, and education, on many occasions, does not keep up at the same speed. People have talent. A lot, in fact. And it is becoming increasingly common to find cases where, through self-teaching, they have learned to exploit it. For example, Steve Jobs never graduated from university and Steve Wozniak did not do so until many years after Apple's consolidation. Bill Gates started a law degree at Harvard in 1973 and never finished it. The three of them swapped their university seats for hours and hours of effort \u201coutside the classroom\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech giants are beginning to change their \"recruiting\" methods. Apple, Microsoft and IBM, among others, have moved away from their stubbornness and are beginning to look outside the elite universities for talent.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}