"The pyramid is going to be broader and shorter, and the path to expertise is going to be faster. This year, we are hiring more school graduates than ever before. I can take a school graduate and give them the tooling so they can actually punch above their weight. AI is an amplifier of human potential. It's not a displacement strategy."
"We are now going to hire non-STEM graduates. I grew up thinking, the more you specialize, the more premium you get. If it's faster to expertise, then expertise is not the asymmetry. Intelligence is not the asymmetry. Applying intelligence is the asymmetry. If I'm a historian, I could blend it with computational skills and become a futurist. If problem solving is assisted with machines ... the mix of people in the core is going to be non-STEM disciplines like anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, journalists; people who can be more purposeful problem finders."
Cognizant tested generative AI at scale, producing a Guinness World Record hackathon with more than 53,000 employees participating and 250,000 participants over a week. Generative AI is driving a hiring shift toward more school graduates and junior hires, enabled by tooling that lets new employees perform beyond traditional expectations. Expertise is becoming faster to attain, reducing traditional specialization premiums, and elevating the importance of applying intelligence. Hiring now targets non-STEM disciplines—historians, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, journalists—to combine domain perspective with computational skills. The company is moving toward agile, project-based 'studio' teams assembled for specific purposes and disbanded after completion.
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