At Rafiki.works, we believe fundamentally in skills-based hiring, and we’re huge advocates for online courses and intense digital bootcamps to progress your career in tech.
We could speak for hours on the topic, we're what you'd call passionate about the matter. Here's a bite-sized taste of what we believe and why:
- Technology has changed, and is changing rapidly, and with it, the labour market.
- The slow moving gears of our education systems hasn’t kept pace.
- Zoom-styled schooling of traditional curriculums simply acts as a band-aid on a flawed system, rather than a fundamental reimagining of how we learn.
Traditional colleges/universities are often financially exclusive, lengthy, and an inefficient use of time. It’s estimated that 85% of today’s college/university students will have jobs that don’t currently exist.
How then do you prepare, or stay relevant, based off a once-off education?
The shift to lifelong learning is already gaining momentum. Education won’t be a lump-sum consumed in the first ~20 years of life, but something we all sporadically consume throughout a career. The pace of technological change will necessitate it.
Online and hybrid, intense bootcamps and short course are already proving extremely efficient for both horizontal shifts in career and vertical gains in placement, and proving to be a better way to hire skill-specific talent as a near turnkey solution to a startups tech stack or processes.
This is exciting because it:
- Can drive down costs of learning,
- Opens up opportunities for previously marginalised communities unable to access prestigious, expensive colleges or universities.
- Makes hiring for technical talent within an evolving environment easier as companies become more willing to consider applicants who don't necessarily have a college degree or minimum years of experience. It’s one of the top workplace trends known as skills-based hiring. According to TestGorilla’s The State of Skills-Based Hiring 2022 report, 76% of employers use some skills-based hiring to find new talent, with almost 55% using role-specific skills tests.
If you’re interested in finding the right course for your career goal, or looking to find a remote position for a UK-based startup in tech, apply to our platform today.
