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Bill Gates commitment to hiring based on skills, not titles.

  From the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are making an effort to encourage businesses to hire employees based on their competence and skills and not on whether or not they have formal qualifications. Otherwise, reviewers, many companies are overlooking potential skilled employees who care enough to dominate a given field just because they could not enter university.

   Innovate + Educate, partners of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are those who have launched this program, known as "New Project Options". Its director, Angela Cobb stresses in the blog of the Gates Foundation, these and other data, such as the fact that companies are losing money because many new graduates do not know how to do a job, because they are unprepared.

   While there are many highly qualified young autodidacts who are left out of the selection process for not having a college degree or other kind of official capacity.

   Indeed, the Aspen Institute gives official data on this situation: three million unemployed in the U.S., and companies without covering your jobs because they can not find qualified for the skills workers need.

   That's why the new draft Innovate + Educate is working to change the way businesses conduct their recruitment or selection of candidates. Overall, what is sought is the test of the candidate and subsequent employment, if your skills are necessary to perform the job.

   Some of the leading voices in education and business, including Bill Gates, the Aspen Institute, the National Skills Coalition and the White House agree with this view, and have implemented similar programs that enhance the development of skills and skills based on the hiring of the candidate.

INCREASED REVENUE

   The first results of the implementation of this program speak for themselves. Research by Innovate + Educate shows that entrepreneurs who have built workers based on their skills, have seen a reduction of 25-75% in turnover, reduced 50 to 70% at the time of hire, the reduction of 70 % in the cost-to-hire and 50% reduction in time teaching job. In short, hiring based on skills is five times more predictive of success than hiring the worker based solely on the degree.

   "Ultimately, the greatest hope for the project is to help leverage opportunities, and that everyone can have a successful career, regardless of their previous education or work experience," writes Cobb.

   Remember that Bill Gates himself created an empire without finishing college. And the same case applies to winners as Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and the late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. The three dropouts to get their innovative products and companies because they had an idea and thought they had enough knowledge to do so.


Juan Luis Barrera Portillo
@ByPecowines
barrerayportillo@gmail.com
Canary Wharf - London