Former CEO of IBM, Ginni Rometty, believes that the future of tech in the 21st century depends not only on college degrees, but on the right skills. She argues that employers must focus on hiring workers with valuable skills in order to bridge the widening gap between those who have access to tech training and opportunities and those who do not. Rometty suggests that companies should prioritise an applicant’s propensity to learn over their skills, offer AI-driven learning systems for their workers, and be honest about the skills that they really want from workers and guide them to learn them or refine them so they can steer their career path in a direction that depends on their goals within the company.