{"id":936,"date":"2022-09-13T10:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/09\/13\/qa-from-parkourist-to-data-analyst-how-upskilling-launched-a-tech-career\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:12:46","slug":"qa-from-parkourist-to-data-analyst-how-upskilling-launched-a-tech-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/09\/13\/qa-from-parkourist-to-data-analyst-how-upskilling-launched-a-tech-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: From parkourist to data analyst \u2014 how upskilling launched a tech career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the unemployment rate hovering just above 2% for tech workers, companies are focusing their recruitment efforts on skills-based hiring and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3669412\/companies-move-to-drop-college-degree-requirements-for-new-hires-focus-on-skills.html\">dropping college degree requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/managing-the-future-of-work\/Documents\/research\/emerging_degree_reset_020922.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent study<\/a>\u00a0by Harvard Business School\u2019s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Burning Glass Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3673271\/qa-from-parkourist-to-data-analyst-how-low-code-opened-doors-to-a-tech-career.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0a recent study\u00a0by Harvard Business School\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}