Forget About Your Degree
Did you go to college for the thing you do now for work? If you did, you’re in the minority. Most people swerve way off course once they graduate.
As a career HR professional for 8+ years (and no, I did not go to school for this), I take educational credentials with a bit of a grain of salt. The work world is changing so quickly that many of the fields and positions we now hire for didn’t exist as educational paths a decade or so back.
So how to identify the best candidates when you can’t just fall back on their educational credentials and their work trajectory from its start?
In his TED Talk, product manager Jason Shen (who studied biology before working in tech) says, “If we only look for talent in the same places we always have—Ivy League schools, gifted child programs, prestigious organizations—we’re going to get the same results we always have.”
Building a diverse, high-performing team sometimes means looking beyond the traditional pedigrees and experience frameworks and instead looking at transferable skills, thinking styles, behaviors, and interests.
How do we measure this in our candidates? PXT Select.
