{"id":18007,"date":"2023-12-05T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themedtechconference.com\/?p=18007"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:11:51","slug":"the-medtech-conference-takeaways-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themedtechconference.com\/the-medtech-conference-takeaways-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The MedTech Conference Takeaways: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Workforce Trends: Hire Differently!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by Scott Whitaker, President and CEO, AdvaMed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MedTech Conference has grown into the industry\u2019s premier annual event worldwide. Every year, attendees come away with unmatched insights, connections, and enthusiasm for their work in this incredible industry. At this year\u2019s event held in October in California, keynote speakers covered everything on the minds of our industry\u2019s most forward-thinking players: the digital transformation of health care, AI, top trends, global policy developments, workforce diversity opportunities, and lessons for aspiring leaders. Here are some highlights I took away from this year\u2019s tremendous event \u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Stop hiring for degrees. Start hiring for capacity to learn.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ginni Rometty, former chairman, president, and CEO at IBM, was raised by a single parent. With four children, her mother sought more education when she could to improve her job prospects.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat my mom showed me was access and aptitude are two different things. My mom had aptitude. She had no access. That\u2019s pretty true for a lot of people. God spreads talent pretty evenly. But access? Uh-uh.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At IBM, that realization translated into seeing many job requirements were over-credentialed. More important than degrees were skills and a capacity to learn. The majority of employees lacking degrees would go on to earn them. This approach is critical to hiring more Black and Hispanic employees and building a more diverse, inclusive, and better workforce, Rometty said. \u201cWhere you start should not determine where you end.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cleveland Clinic leads in this new approach, she said. A potential employee said all he did was run Army logistics and could be a janitor. \u201cThey\u2019re like, do you think [Army logistics] is not the same as moving ambulances around?\u2019\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rometty is co-chairman of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oneten.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OneTen<\/a>, a coalition of companies, including several medtech companies, to upskill, hire and promote one million Black individuals into careers over the next ten years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along similar lines, Stryker CEO and chairman Kevin Lobo said its trauma division is hiring as sales people those with trauma experience, such as former EMTs \u2013 without college degrees. \u201cWe\u2019re not just chasing numbers. We\u2019re actually trying to produce better results,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What would you tell your early career self?: \u201cGrowth and comfort never co-exist.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Rometty once hesitated over her readiness when she was offered a big job. Her husband asked if a man would have responded that way, not as a gender point, but to emphasize the need for an accurate self-assessment of her abilities and capacity for risk. 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