{"id":918557,"date":"2025-04-01T08:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=918557"},"modified":"2025-04-01T08:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:18:58","slug":"skills-based-hiring-takes-root-as-focus-shifts-from-fancy-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/01\/skills-based-hiring-takes-root-as-focus-shifts-from-fancy-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills-based hiring takes root as focus shifts from fancy degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;College &#8211; does not matter. Resume -not needed,&#8221; read the hiring post on X last month when Sudarshan Kamath, founder of artificial intelligence startup Smallest.ai, announced that the company was on the lookout for a full-stack engineer, offering a salary of \u20b940 lakh per annum. The Bengaluru-based startup unsurprisingly found itself swamped with applications &#8211; more than 7,000 at last count. But significantly, it wasn&#8217;t just a move to grab eyeballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;College &#8211; does not matter. Resume -not needed,&#8221; read the hiring post on X last month when Sudarshan Kamath, founder of artificial intelligence startup Smallest.ai, announced that the company was on the lookout for a full-stack engineer, offering a salary of \u20b940 lakh per annum. The Bengaluru-based startup unsurprisingly found itself swamped with applications &#8211; more than 7,000 at last count. But significantly, it wasn&#8217;t just a move to grab eyeballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}