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Right now there’s a temporary mismatch between the jobs that used to be sought after in some fields and the new jobs that are becoming in demand in those fields.
For instance, if you studied CS, for years the general direction of travel was often to join a tech company and build customer-facing software in some form. A significant portion of the CS pipeline from college to hire was built for this.
When you realize that AI is going to make coding abundant, you realize everyone will need technical talent to implement agentic systems. This means the types of roles engineers should be thinking about radically expands.
I was talking to a Fortune 500 pharma CEO a week ago that commented on how much more technical talent they need right now. The job may be different from what it was 5 years ago when thinking about tech, but the demand for the skills are still there. And this is what I’m hearing from every CIO and CEO across nearly every industry right now.
We definitely need colleges to wake up to this; but we equally need companies think about how they craft pipelines into these jobs.
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