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fromFast Company
2 days agoThe rise of days-long (and often unpaid) 'work trials' for job applicants
Work trials are increasingly used by employers to evaluate candidates' real-world skills amidst a flood of similar applications.
Don't count on a college degree to land your dream job in Silicon Valley. Increasingly, founders and tech companies are judging talent by how quickly someone can learn, adapt, and build - not on how long they spent in a lecture hall - reshaping traditional pathways into the workforce. Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer science professor widely known as the "Godmother of AI," is one example of this.