Ryan Lufkin

In many cases, it's the same or similar content repackaged in more bite-sized chunks.

So you can go and take a three or four course certificate.

But then that certificate, I can post to LinkedIn.

I can post to an employer and show, look, if you look at my LinkedIn, I've got certificate in data-driven marketing from eCornell.

I did an AI regulation and compliance course from Oxford State Business School.

I'm doing my master's right now with Arizona State University.

Because to me, I enjoy learning.

it's one of those things but it's also that way that you qualify yourself for being openly mobile in a job that's one of the things that we've shifted towards and it's not necessarily breaking it down to the component skills we haven't all agreed on like a skills taxonomy that makes sense to everyone and a lot of the old skills taxonomies are really outdated they don't capture a lot of the more modern skills that we need not quite there yet but getting those certificates to help demonstrate for employers that i'm a learner i want to evolve and these skills we're getting there pretty quickly

What's cool now, yeah, to your point, there are more educational opportunities, more paths to find yourself into a well-paying job than there ever have been in the history of the world.

And the biggest challenge is finding out what do you want to do and then finding through all the noise what's the best path to get there.

And it's not always a two or four year degree.

But I was the same way.

I'll be honest.

I diagnosed ADHD, missed class a lot on academic probation at one point.

What you learn is all of a sudden you're like, it clicks and you're like, oh, if I go to class, if the teacher knows my name, if I do the basic studying, I will graduate.

And those are the things.

It's those social skills.

College is almost about as much as learning what you need to do to be successful.

There's a lot of kind of noise around employees not being prepared for the job.

They don't want to come to the office.