A strong belief that students who get low test scores are
not smart and avoid tough majors that lead to some of the best jobs, is now
being proved wrong.
It is because people misunderstood those individuals and didn’t realise that
each person is smarter in their own way. All of today’s successful leaders are
the college dropouts of their time. But they achieved success not by acquiring
the degrees, but by honing the skills they knew they are good at.
The good news for all such people who have been not very efficient in acquiring
greater degrees is that today’s top companies are not interested in assigning
jobs to people who have completed a four-year degree programme.
Instead, they want you to have the skills that are required to work.
World-leading companies such as Apple, IBM, and Google, believe in
self-learning, innovation, passion, and having clear goals.
Glassdoor has compiled a list of top companies that do not require a 4-year
college degree.
Companies such as Google, Apple, and IBM are looking for skills over a college
degree.
According to IBM’s head of talent organisation, these types of jobs are called
new-collar jobs in which the eligibility of the candidates is based on their
skill.
In this way, all the applicants who failed to complete their four-year degree
in any way but have proved their technical knowledge will have a chance to
become of part of these organisations. Tanmay Bakshi, one of the youngest
software programmers in the world, is one such example. Bakshi came across a
documentary on the IBM Watson when he was eleven years of age and become hooked
to it. Looking at it, he found inspiration to develop his own first Watson App
named as Ask Tanmay.
After some time, he found a bug in the Document Conversion service by IBM and
shared it on Twitter. This was taken notice of by the IBM who were working on
the service and contacted the young Tanmay. Once he was contacted, two of these
initial contacts became his mentors and assisted him in working together with
the company.
In the same way, if you have a degree in some other program but are ken in
learning software development. You can still get a job in the world’s leading
companies. There are so many examples who have been working for something else
previously but ended up doing something they loved the most. Angela Taylor is
one such example who worked as an HR person in Google and with her can-do
attitude, she became a Google engineer.
This explains that the potential in each individual is unlocked by combining
the power of computers and software. In order to proceed, the desire to learn
is important and teachers or parents only need to understand the flexibility of
children to learn at their own pace and they should not be over pushed for
grades in the school. Once the individuals are given the flexibility, they will
better be equipped with skills and knowledge than just getting degrees.
Via: Packt Hub
