The urgency of the Human Resources teams to fill open positions and the standardization of job searches has led to the Seniority of a candidate being defined by years of experience, not giving rise to their ability to fill a position and the rest of his abilities.
The strange thing about the latter is that most of the leaders in the Tech world consider that the most important skills for Senior positions are communication, collaboration and team leadership skills.
It is clear that the demands of the labor market point to the most technological professions, which include programmers with knowledge in web development, apps, backend, frontend, fullstack, data science experts, data analystamong others.
But as in almost every search that a company launches, experience is taken into account as a key factor. However, each year more junior talent enters the job market, with a lot to offer, and their potential is neglected because senior profiles are prioritized.
One might think that it is always better to hire professionals with more years of experience, but in the field of programming the same rules do not apply as in the rest of the areas and those who acquire skills, especially in bootcamps, are more than prepared to face the challenges. that a company can offer in the area of technology.
Advantages of junior talent
According to Course Report, there were more than 100,000 bootcamp graduates globally last year.
- On average they have seven years of work experience.
- at least a bachelor’s degree (but never worked as a programmer)
This is a reflection of the fact that if a search asks for years of experience in similar positions, probably the majority of bootcamp graduates cannot apply simply because they cannot meet that requirement, even if they have the necessary skills to fill that position. and even more the desire to do it.
It is that those who studied in one of these training camps did so in many cases because they wanted to give a new direction to their professional career, a decision that is usually faced with total enthusiasm, the same one that is transferred to the work challenges that are faced later. .
Junior talent has this incredible advantage that it is made up of people willing to learn, grow and improve in the company in which they are hired and have unprecedented flexibility to adapt to the needs of the company.
In turn, there has never been so much junior talent available for the demands of the market. Bootcamps are growing and from there profiles with few or no years in the programming universe emerge, which does not mean that they are not suitable to assume the responsibilities that a position of this type poses.
However, of course it is important that companies have professionals with a certain amount of experience to take charge of certain issues that require their judgment, but as in any office, it is always good to combine different styles, visions and generations to enrich the work.
In relation to this, according to Course Report, the average age of those who graduated from bootcamps in 2020 was between 25 to 30 years. Junior programmers can splash creativity into workspaces, with new ideas and ways of doing things and with the freshness that is sometimes disguised as the famous “beginner’s luck”, which in truth is nothing more or less. less than the absence of fear of taking risks.
Companies look at senior profiles with the idea that they will perform better than new programmers, but that is a mistake because years spent working in an expertise do not guarantee a good response in the workplace. Stagnation often has to do with people getting used to working in a certain ecosystem and that does not help companies that are constantly changing and transforming in their technological areas.
For all this, it is a time when it was never a better option to hire junior talent to add to the company not only the most accelerated and fresh knowledge, but also to renew bets and visions, that seasoning that the universe of technology demands every again and to which not everyone knows how to respond.
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Source: Ambito
