The Bar For Joining the Technical Workforce is Skyrocketing

... and the bar for graduating school/college is cratering

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It is more important than ever for students interested in tech to graduate with serious technical skills.

You used to be able to play around, learn a few basics, make a few toy projects, and then get serious and skill up on the job.

Those days are over. You have to be able to hit the ground running. You have to be a net positive very early. And you need demonstrable proof.

This requires years of serious upskilling that most schools, even many top colleges, are not delivering on. A degree is no longer demonstrable proof of skill. A grade of “A” is no longer demonstrable proof of skill.

The bar for joining the technical workforce is skyrocketing and the bar for graduating school/college is cratering.

Until there is a functioning and scalable pipeline from school to job – one that can get students seriously skilled up efficiently and reliably communicate that skill to employers – students who simply do what they’re told are the basics and assume that’s enough will be disappointed.

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