Forget Credentials
Don’t rely on the declining value of credentialing signals: demonstrate you have the skills.
My recent conversation with Max Keiser on Summer Solutions (25:45) included three bits of advice:
1. Stop financializing the human experience
2. Acquire skills, not credentials
3. Vote with your feet
Today’s topic is acquire skills, not credentials.
What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.”
Doing well in college—earning high test scores and grades—has no measurable correlation with being an effective worker or manager. This is incontrovertible evidence that the entire higher education system is detached from the real economy: excelling in higher education has no discernible correlation to real-world skills or performance.
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