solving education problems the social way

Janna Bastow @simplybastow

Who am I?• Head of Product at BraveNewTalent

• We have a vision: Close the gap between education, recruitment and the world of work.

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What is this skills gap?

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the skills gap

industry innovation

education innovation

What’s wrong with education?• Made for mass production• Information regurgitation• Grouped by age, not ability or

interest.• No input from future employers• No exposure to world of work

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What’s wrong with education?

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What’s this world of work?• Knowledge work• Team work and collaboration • Fitting in with a company culture• Progressing with a career

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Is this a global thing?

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How can education keep up?• All new job titles are being created• Curriculums are out of date

Traditional education system can’t keep up.

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Case Study: Khan Academy• Providing free world-class

education to anyone, anywhere.• Video access to a huge library

of learning material and assessment tools.

• Self administered learning

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Case Study: Facebook• Provides intense on the job

training, called Bootcamp• Language agnostic, places

the employee based on skills/interests.

• Employer led learning

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Case Study: Aspiritech• Turns Aspergers/austism into

specialized jobs in QA• On the job training and life

coaching• Custom tailored job

opportunities

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How can being social help?• At each person’s core, a desire for: – Self discovery.... what am I good at?– Self improvement.... how can I be great

at it?– Self actualization.... how can I carve a

place in the world for me?

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How can being social help?• Peer-to-peer technologies open up a

new world–Massive, collaborative knowledge pool– Skills and knowledge transfer– Career mapping to skills and interests

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Everyone is brilliant at something.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

― Albert Einstein

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Thank you!• Tweet me: @simplybastow• Get in touch:

janna@bravenewtalent.com

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