Tech is taking over every industry and is driving workforce mobility, according to Ruben Harris, CEO and co-founder of Career Karma. Harris explains the organization matches people to job training programs in order to land high-paying tech jobs.
“What makes our platform unique is not only is it free for you, but we give you support during the program, during the job search, and for the rest of your life—through our lab, audio rooms. We have a community of hundreds of thousands of peers, coaches, and mentors that could help you.”
Ruben also notes an initiative that is helping equip people who want to get on the tech pathway. “We’re giving away 5,000 laptops to people that want to break into tech. It’s very simple. You just Google Reskill America and Career Karma. All you gotta do is to apply to it. We’re giving away free laptops to people that are enrolled in boot camps.”
He says the industry is right for people of all ages and backgrounds, noting that the typical person that’s seeking out Career Karma is between the ages of 25 and 35. He adds, “We have plenty of people that are in the 35 to 55 range, actually, and even older than that.”
“People are living longer and working for longer periods of time. Not only are companies hiring people without a college degree, they’re hiring people across ages. If you are older, you’ve probably spent a significant amount of time in a certain field. It might be retail, it might be sales, it might be telephones, it might be nursing, or whatever. And that’s valuable because those industries are being transformed by technology. Your experience in the industry for a long period of time actually makes you very valuable,” explains Harris.
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Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.
Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.
Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.
Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.
Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.
Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.
