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The great reskill Reinvention is the name of the game for the next generation of employees.
Business is changing—and required employee skillsets are changing with it. As the digital revolution races on, brands are realizing that the fastest and
most effective way to keep pace is to upskill their existing workforce. Where
specialized college or graduate degrees may once have been a prerequisite, companies are now encouraging employees to learn as they go.
Rachel Carlson, cofounder and CEO of Guild Education, predicts that this will
give rise to a new formula for education—one that may even supplant a college
degree. Carlson told the Masters of Scale podcast that the “four and 40,” which previously saw the majority of employees go to school for four years, then work for 40, is “dead” and supplanted by a new model. “What’s now is the every
four,” said Carlson. “You’re going to have to learn some sort of new skill every four years.”
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