Name: Insights: IBM Champions New Skills for Post-AI Workplaces
Uploaded: 2020-01-14
Duration: 3 min 54 s
Description: Ginni Rometty spoke at CEO Initiative June 2019.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Really believe that the day I'll change 100% of jobs-- change. I didn't say replace. I didn't-- Every job. But every job-- in some way, different degrees. Some will be new, but otherwise change. And so then the most important question becomes-- people talk-- we'll talk about privacy and trust, those things. But boy, I think the other thing is, if you don't feel like you have the skills to participate in this world and work with this, this is a very divisive thing. It means you got to find a way for everyone to be able to participate, and that the system's got to work for everyone. It means everyone can't have a college degree because it's moving too fast. If we think everybody's got to be a data scientist and all these things, that's crazy. And so there's got to be a way for less than four year degrees to get a huge part of the population participating. And at the other end, there's got to be a way-- and we've got something to talk about, to retrain. It's our responsibility to start to prepare society for them. And one of the ways is, to Alan's point, would be around training. So here, I have all these open jobs, 30,000 jobs open in the United States. And I say, well, what am I going to do? And we started to say, look, yes, we hire lots of PhD's, university graduates. But I need another-- I need more workforce. And we had coined this idea-- and I keep using the words, and I'd like to try it on you-- called new collar. The idea was if you could believe in a different paradigm, not white collar, not blue collar, so no thing negative about this, but that you could make a really good living, a career. You did not have to have a four year degree. So I would value your skills over your degree. I would value your skills. I would also believe that there could be new models of education that could get you there in different pathways. One thing we started was something called Pathway to Technology Early College High School. It's a mouthful. PTech. PTech. But it's just a-- and I don't believe it's my job to replace government or anything like this. I need these workers. I need these employees. And I need society to love these technologies. But you've gone way beyond training your own-- Yes, oh, yes. --voice. So why-- Oh, I can come back to my own. --why are you taking on the bigger respons-- Well, I need more than just even what I have. And so the idea was to say let's start to prepare. And we went to high schools. We went to the most disadvantaged high schools that we could find. The first one was here in Brooklyn. This is now seven years and going. So think of a six-year high school, would be an easy way to think about it, with a community college. A community college and the high school together, and there is a very distinct formula. The formula is-- because I'll come back to it. The most important skill is human centered, actually, not the higher technology skills. And align them with a curriculum, and not vocational, a kind of a how do you learn curriculum. Give them internships, mentors, your employees, and a chance at a job. We have watched 100% of kids come through. We're now up to 125,000 kids, almost all first generation, 14 countries, 11 states, and-- How long does the program last? --400x-- well, you can get through as fast-- a six year you can get through. And the kids, actually, the most interesting thing is many are graduating in four years and 4 and 1/2 with both their high school degree and their associate degree. And some go the whole six. And ironically, we thought they'd all go to work. About a third are coming right into work. And the others are now going on to their four year degrees. I'm like, that wasn't supposed to work that way. Come on back here. The whole idea was to get away from four year, yeah. Get back here. Yeah, but where there's a will, there's a way. There's plenty of ways. And it has been repeatable. So now it's not just us. We have 500 other companies. 

Insights: IBM Champions New Skills for Post-AI Workplaces

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Ginni Rometty spoke at CEO Initiative June 2019. 

IBM Champions New Skills for Post-AI Workplaces

I really believe it. The day I'll change 100% of jobs change I didn't replace. I didn't every job but every job in some way different degrees. Some will be new but otherwise changed. And so then the most important question becomes. People talk. We'll talk about privacy and trust those things. But, boy, I think the other thing is, if you don't feel like you have the skills to participate in this world and work with this, this is a very divisive thing. It means you gotta find a way for everyone to be able to participate and that the system's gotta work for everyone. It means everyone can't have a college degree because it's moving too fast. If we think everybody's got to be a data scientist and all these things that crazy and so there's gotta be a way for less than four year degrees to get a huge part of the population participating, and at the other end, there's got to be a way, and we were about to retrain. It's our responsibility to start to prepare society for them, and one of the ways is Alan's point would be around training. So here I have all these open jobs, 30,000 jobs open in the United States. And I said, Well, what am I going to do? And we started a look. Yes, we hire lots of Ph. D's university graduate, but I need another. I need more workforce, and we had coined this idea, and I keep using the words I'd like to try it on you called New Collar. The idea was, if you could believe in a different paradigm, not white collar, not blue collar. So nothing negative about this, but that that there you could make a really good living a career. You did not have to have a four year degree, so I would value your skills over your degree. I would value your skills. I would also believe that there could be new models of education that could get you there in different pathways. One thing we started with something called Pathway to Technology Early College High School, a mouthful, Pete. But it's just a and I don't believe it's my job to replace government or anything like this. I need these workers. I need these employees and I need society to love these technologies, but you're gone way beyond training your own? Yes. Oh, yeah. So what? Oh, I get on a response. I need more than just even what I have. And so? So the idea would waas to say, Let's start to prepare. And we went to high school. We went to most disadvantaged high schools that we could find the 1st 1 was here in Brooklyn. Uh, this is now seven years and going So think of a six year high school. Be an easy way to think about it with a community college, community, college in the high school together. And there is a very distinct formula. The formula is because I'll come back to the most important skill of human centered actually not the hard technology skills and aligned them with a curriculum and at vocational kind of How do you learn curriculum? Give them internship, mentors, your employees and a chance of a job. We have watched 100% of kids come through. We're now up to 125,000 kids. Almost all first generation 14 countries, 11 states. And how long? 400 ex. Well, you can get through it fast. Six year you can get through and the kids. Actually, the most interesting thing is many are graduating in four years and four and 1/2 with both their high school degree and their associate degree, and some go the whole six. And ironically, we thought that I'll go to work. About 1/3 are coming right into work, and the others are now going onto their four year degrees. I'm like that wasn't supposed to work that way. Come on back here, get back here. But there's whether the Willers away there's plenty of ways and it is. It has been repeated. So now it's not just us. We have 500 other companies.