Hire For Potential, Not For Skills
IDC, Monday, September 9th, 2024
Amid rapid change, it doesn't matter what employees did yesterday, but what they will do tomorrow.
Faced with the need to staff up quickly to carry out a generative AI initiative, Sanjay Srivastava did the logical thing. 'We brought in kindergarten teachers to do prompt engineering,' says the chief digital strategist at Genpact, a professional services firm. Although the decision might appear unorthodox, it's consistent with Srivastava's fundamental outlook. He is a strong believer in hiring people from a variety of backgrounds who possess a vital trait: the ability to learn.