COMPUTERWORLD: Q&A: From parkourist to data analyst — how upskilling launched a tech career
September 13, 2022
By Lucas Mearian
Senior Reporter, Computerworld
With the unemployment rate hovering just above 2% for tech workers, companies are focusing their recruitment efforts on skills-based hiring and dropping college degree requirements.
Among middle-skilled occupations, the openings that require college degrees are for the most part similar to those for which no degree is required, according to a recent study by Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Burning Glass Institute.
“Jobs do not require four-year college degrees. Employers do,” the study noted…
