Catherine (Kathryn) Dill
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard May 2022
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Blue-Collar Workers Are Making the Leap into Tech Jobs · 11 Apr 2022
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And also many of them are used to working jobs that came with sort of uncommon hours or unreliable hours.
And so the reliability of their schedule plus pay plus benefits like, you know, a certain threshold of paid time off are really significant.
And some of the workers we spoke with were also accustomed to doing physically taxing or repetitive work.
And so the jobs that they switched into were a big shift.
Absolutely.
Imposter syndrome was brought up specifically by one of the workers I spoke with and less specifically by many of the ones we spoke with for this story.
This is a big emotional shift as well.
And the workers that we spoke with, a couple of them said, I had always been interested in tech or I had won a technology-related prize in high school, but I just didn't think of myself as the type of person who would necessarily thrive in a boot camp or
find myself in a cybersecurity job and so for many of them the the on-ramp of something like a boot camp was really essential because it came with you know some career planning skills and support as well but overcoming that emotional barrier of as someone who we spoke with said you know i sold cell phones or cable plans and now i'm one of those tech guys is a different kind of hurdle
Yeah, it really feels like some of them have had to blow up the blueprint here.
And to a certain extent, degree requirements and how heavily companies lean on them ebb and flow with the tightness of the labor market, often when it's harder to find workers, we see companies move away from them a little bit more and often re-implement them
once things shift back towards their favor.
But we are seeing an increasing number of employers moving to strip out degree requirements that may have been added in previous years where they're really not necessary.
And Okta, one of the companies that we spoke with for the story, made it really clear they have some pretty serious priorities here right now.
They need to grow as a company.
They need to grow their workforce.
They want to diversify their workforce.
And so they're really looking more carefully at hiring based on skills
and potential, and not so much asking what college did you go to?
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