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Economic Times
06-08-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
University degrees are not enough: Experts share 3 easy skills that AI still can't fake
TIL Creatives Representative AI Image John Colgrove, founder of Pure Storage, recently visited Bengaluru and made a bold claim: 'Not a single job has been lost to AI.' On paper, it sounds reassuring. On the ground, it doesn't hold up, as reported by the US, postings for entry-level jobs are down over 11 percent since early 2021. In India, it's even sharper. Just two years ago, large IT firms were hiring 50,000 graduates every quarter. That number has crashed to under 5,000. In the UK, young people are sending out hundreds of applications and hearing nothing while the total number of employees in big firms might look steady, the pipeline feeding new talent into those roles is drying up. New graduates are stuck outside, knocking on a door that doesn't been a quiet shift in what companies value. It used to be enough to show promise. Now, they want roles demanding AI skills have jumped by 30 percent, according to data from Draup. As reported by TOI, Mukesh Chaudhary of Accenture puts it simply: one in three companies is already experimenting with agentic AI, the kind that can take over whole workflows without constant human input. Engineers, he says, now need to build, manage, and supervise autonomous systems. What used to be 'starter' tasks basic bug fixes or QA work are vanishing into it's not just coding roles. The same pattern is showing up in admin, data entry, marketing, customer support. Anywhere a junior used to learn the ropes is now where AI is being tested you're still thinking of internships as optional summer fluff, think again. Vijay Swaminathan, CEO of Draup, says it flatly: 'Companies want graduates to be productive from day one.'To get there, students need to pick a direction early. 'Choose a focus area like data engineering or infrastructure and go deep, semester after semester,' he advises. Bouncing between interests doesn't impress anymore. Depth beats variety. It's the same story from Devashish Sharma, CEO of Taggd: 'Internships and hackathons have become the new probation period.' Companies aren't waiting until someone's hired to test them. They're watching your GitHub, your open-source contributions, your side projects. Atul Sahgal, who heads global talent acquisition at Cognizant, agrees. The company plans to hire 20,000 graduates this year but says the bar is higher. 'A lively GitHub repo speaks louder than marksheets,' he many graduates, this shift feels like a betrayal. They did what they were told. Go to uni. Get the degree. Job will now? Not always. As reported by The Guardian, Susie, a PhD holder from Sheffield, applied to more than 700 jobs in nine months. She finally got one — it pays just under £30,000, barely above a research stipend. Martyna, 23, sent out 150 applications and heard mostly silence. 'I feel very disheartened and, frankly, lied to,' she said. 'I have £90,000 in student debt – for what?' Even hospitality and retail roles are asking for experience. Lucy, a graduate from Lincolnshire, summed it up: 'I got a degree because I was told it was the only good option. Now I'm working at Greggs.' The market isn't just tight. It's unforgiving. And it's stacked against those who come in with nothing but a degree and not just that jobs are disappearing. The way you apply for them has changed are now being screened by AI long before a human sees them. This has triggered a wave of tricks like pasting the full job description into your CV in invisible font, so keyword filters don't bin your application. But even that's becoming pointless. The bigger issue is sameness. Everyone's using the same AI tools to write the same polished cover Schurer's son sent out 200 applications with no success. Her conclusion? 'If everyone ticks all the boxes, how do you choose?' She thinks we've gone backwards. 'It appears that it's back to who you know rather than what you know.'Networking, referrals, chance encounters they matter more now than are starting to drop formal requirements. In the US, 14 states and several federal agencies have shifted to skills-first hiring. A Harvard-Burning Glass report found that jobs dropping degree requirements have quadrupled in the last don't mistake policy for practice. For every 100 job ads that removed a degree requirement, only four more non-degree candidates were actually there's another twist. AI might be helping students pass coursework but it's also leaving them unprepared. Lecturers say many graduates can't summarise properly. They struggle to problem-solve. Their writing is weak. A senior recruiter in London said bluntly, 'These were basic requirements 10 or 15 years ago. Now they are elite skills.'Some roles are holding steady. A Microsoft Research study identified 40 jobs that AI still can't touch. They include hands-on, unpredictable or highly human work: nursing assistants, welders, ship engineers, can monitor your health, but it can't draw blood or comfort a dying patient. It can tell you when your tyre pressure is low, but it can't get on its knees and change the odd twist in all this. The further you are from a screen, the safer your job might no easy fix. But there is a way to fight uni as a basecamp, not a destination. Start building experience early. Not just any experience — the kind that shows up in public. Contribute to projects. Join open-source teams. Publish both depth and range. Know your niche, but understand the bigger picture. Learn how to think clearly, write persuasively, collaborate well. These are the things AI still can't job market has changed. But people who adapt early, fast, and visibly, still stand a chance. Even if the old paths are gone, new ones are there. You just have to make them yourself.
Time of India
06-08-2025
- Business
- Time of India
University degrees are not enough: Experts share 3 easy job skills that AI still can't fake
AI isn't just reshaping the workplace. It's gutting the bottom rung of the career ladder. Entry-level jobs are being automated, filtered, and squeezed out before graduates even get a foot in. Internships are now essential. Portfolios speak louder than degrees. Even the job application itself is a battle against machines. While companies insist no jobs are lost, the numbers and stories say otherwise. For young people, this is less a job market and more a maze with no map. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads AI wants skills, not potential Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads The intern is the new employee Degrees still matter. But they're no longer enough Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads The machines now read your CV first A degree no longer guarantees you anything Not all jobs are at risk, yet What young people can actually do John Colgrove, founder of Pure Storage , recently visited Bengaluru and made a bold claim: 'Not a single job has been lost to AI.' On paper, it sounds reassuring. On the ground, it doesn't hold up, as reported by the US, postings for entry-level jobs are down over 11 percent since early 2021. In India, it's even sharper. Just two years ago, large IT firms were hiring 50,000 graduates every quarter. That number has crashed to under 5,000. In the UK, young people are sending out hundreds of applications and hearing nothing while the total number of employees in big firms might look steady, the pipeline feeding new talent into those roles is drying up. New graduates are stuck outside, knocking on a door that doesn't been a quiet shift in what companies value. It used to be enough to show promise. Now, they want roles demanding AI skills have jumped by 30 percent, according to data from Draup. As reported by TOI, Mukesh Chaudhary of Accenture puts it simply: one in three companies is already experimenting with agentic AI, the kind that can take over whole workflows without constant human he says, now need to build, manage, and supervise autonomous systems. What used to be 'starter' tasks basic bug fixes or QA work are vanishing into it's not just coding roles. The same pattern is showing up in admin, data entry, marketing, customer support. Anywhere a junior used to learn the ropes is now where AI is being tested you're still thinking of internships as optional summer fluff, think again. Vijay Swaminathan , CEO of Draup, says it flatly: 'Companies want graduates to be productive from day one.'To get there, students need to pick a direction early. 'Choose a focus area like data engineering or infrastructure and go deep, semester after semester,' he advises. Bouncing between interests doesn't impress anymore. Depth beats the same story from Devashish Sharma, CEO of Taggd: 'Internships and hackathons have become the new probation period.' Companies aren't waiting until someone's hired to test them. They're watching your GitHub , your open-source contributions, your side Sahgal, who heads global talent acquisition at Cognizant, agrees. The company plans to hire 20,000 graduates this year but says the bar is higher. 'A lively GitHub repo speaks louder than marksheets,' he many graduates, this shift feels like a betrayal. They did what they were told. Go to uni. Get the degree. Job will now? Not reported by The Guardian, Susie , a PhD holder from Sheffield, applied to more than 700 jobs in nine months. She finally got one — it pays just under £30,000, barely above a research stipend. Martyna, 23, sent out 150 applications and heard mostly silence. 'I feel very disheartened and, frankly, lied to,' she said. 'I have £90,000 in student debt – for what?'Even hospitality and retail roles are asking for experience. Lucy , a graduate from Lincolnshire, summed it up: 'I got a degree because I was told it was the only good option. Now I'm working at Greggs.'The market isn't just tight. It's unforgiving. And it's stacked against those who come in with nothing but a degree and not just that jobs are disappearing. The way you apply for them has changed are now being screened by AI long before a human sees them. This has triggered a wave of tricks like pasting the full job description into your CV in invisible font, so keyword filters don't bin your application. But even that's becoming pointless. The bigger issue is sameness. Everyone's using the same AI tools to write the same polished cover Schurer's son sent out 200 applications with no success. Her conclusion? 'If everyone ticks all the boxes, how do you choose?' She thinks we've gone backwards. 'It appears that it's back to who you know rather than what you know.'Networking, referrals, chance encounters they matter more now than are starting to drop formal requirements. In the US, 14 states and several federal agencies have shifted to skills-first hiring. A Harvard-Burning Glass report found that jobs dropping degree requirements have quadrupled in the last don't mistake policy for practice. For every 100 job ads that removed a degree requirement, only four more non-degree candidates were actually there's another twist. AI might be helping students pass coursework but it's also leaving them unprepared. Lecturers say many graduates can't summarise properly. They struggle to problem-solve. Their writing is weak. A senior recruiter in London said bluntly, 'These were basic requirements 10 or 15 years ago. Now they are elite skills.'Some roles are holding steady. A Microsoft Research study identified 40 jobs that AI still can't touch. They include hands-on, unpredictable or highly human work: nursing assistants, welders, ship engineers, can monitor your health, but it can't draw blood or comfort a dying patient. It can tell you when your tyre pressure is low, but it can't get on its knees and change the odd twist in all this. The further you are from a screen, the safer your job might no easy fix. But there is a way to fight uni as a basecamp, not a destination. Start building experience early. Not just any experience — the kind that shows up in public. Contribute to projects. Join open-source teams. Publish both depth and range. Know your niche, but understand the bigger picture. Learn how to think clearly, write persuasively, collaborate well. These are the things AI still can't job market has changed. But people who adapt early, fast, and visibly, still stand a chance. Even if the old paths are gone, new ones are there. You just have to make them yourself.(With inputs from TOI)
Tahawul Tech
11-07-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
Pure Storage redefining what's possible for their customers with expansion of its next-generation storage products
Pure Storage has announced an expansion of its next-generation storage products designed for the most demanding, high-performance workloads, that they claim will redefine what is possible for their large customer base. 'In an era where data is king and IT complexity remains a major hurdle to accessing and using data for optimal business value, Pure Storage is once again redefining what's possible for customers,' said John Colgrove (Coz), Founder and Chief Visionary at Pure Storage. 'Pure Storage delivers the magic by rejecting the norms we've come to accept for storage infrastructure; they are what's holding us back within this new era of exponential data growth and logarithmic growth of insight value.' As data volumes rise and business demands shift faster than ever, traditional storage infrastructures create fragmentation, silos, and uncontrolled data sprawl. Organizations must fundamentally change their approach to data storage and management to one that nimbly and efficiently helps customers meet and scale growing data needs. An Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) redefines how data is delivered, governed, and consumed by creating a virtualized cloud of data delivering a single, seamless data layer with consistent control across on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments. Only the Pure Storage platform offers the performance, efficiency, and intelligence to deliver such data management at scale. FlashArray and FlashBlade – Built To Do More Core to the Pure Storage platform are Pure Storage FlashArray™ and Pure Storage FlashBlade®, which underpin the delivery of performance, reliability, and flexibility in a unified storage experience. The latest Pure Storage FlashArray and Pure Storage FlashBlade offerings extend the platform — unlocking massive performance density gains, enabling faster results, and seamlessly scaling for future applications and demands — with capabilities to handle the full workload spectrum. NEW: Pure Storage FlashArray//XL The next generation of Pure Storage FlashArray, FlashArray//XL™ R5, sets the bar for performance at extreme scale so customers can consolidate diverse workloads into a unified platform. FlashArray//XL: Doubles the amount of IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) per rack unit compared to the previous generation and increases max raw capacity by up to 50 percent. NEW: Pure Storage FlashArray//ST Continuing to push the boundaries of high-performance platforms, FlashArray//ST™ is a new offering designed to serve the most latency-sensitive workloads such as in-memory databases, large OLTP, log writing, and scale-out and sharded NOSQL databases. FlashArray//ST: Delivers over 10 million IOPS per five rack units through an optimized IO path. NEW: Pure Storage FlashBlade//S Next-generation controller blades in FlashBlade//S™ R2, the latest version of Pure Storage FlashBlade//S, enhance the platform to help organizations accelerate time-to-insight, consolidate infrastructure, and realize faster outcomes from the most demanding data pipelines. FlashBlade//S: Performs up to 30% greater than competitors across critical workloads like genome sequencing, inference, and electronic design automation simulations, as well as other extensive datasets required for effective AI reasoning. NEW: Single Architecture of Block, File, and Object Addressing the explosive growth of unstructured data, Pure Storage extends object support to FlashArray, creating a true single architecture for block, file and object across the entire Pure Storage platform. Object support for FlashArray: Simplifies data management with block, file, and object consolidated on a single unified platform and consistent experience. 'Pure Storage was born to disrupt the industry, as we introduced new capabilities to reliably achieve better and better performance at any scale,' continued Colgrove. 'We are unwavering in our mission to enable our customers' ambitions, providing the most innovative and reliable foundation they need to confidently meet any future challenge or opportunity.'
Tahawul Tech
03-07-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
Pure Storage delivers performance at any scale with new products
IT pioneer Pure Storage recently announced an expansion of its next-generation storage product portfolio designed for demanding and high-performance workloads. 'In an era where data is king and IT complexity remains a major hurdle to accessing and using data for optimal business value, Pure Storage is once again redefining what's possible for customers', said John Colgrove (Coz), Founder and Chief Visionary at Pure Storage. 'Pure Storage delivers the magic by rejecting the norms we've come to accept for storage infrastructure; they are what's holding us back within this new era of exponential data growth and logarithmic growth of insight value'. As data volumes rise and business demands shift faster than ever, traditional storage infrastructures create fragmentation, silos, and uncontrolled data sprawl. Organisations must fundamentally change their approach to data storage and management to one that nimbly and efficiently helps customers meet and scale growing data needs. An Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) redefines how data is delivered, governed, and consumed by creating a virtualized cloud of data delivering a single, seamless data layer with consistent control across on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments. Only the Pure Storage platform offers the performance, efficiency, and intelligence to deliver such data management at scale. FlashArray and FlashBlade – Built To Do More Core to the Pure Storage platform are Pure Storage FlashArray™ and Pure Storage FlashBlade®, which underpin the delivery of performance, reliability, and flexibility in a unified storage experience. The latest Pure Storage FlashArray and Pure Storage FlashBlade offerings extend the platform — unlocking massive performance density gains, enabling faster results, and seamlessly scaling for future applications and demands — with capabilities to handle the full workload spectrum. NEW: Pure Storage FlashArray//XL The next generation of Pure Storage FlashArray, FlashArray//XL™ R5, sets the bar for performance at extreme scale so customers can consolidate diverse workloads into a unified platform. FlashArray//XL: Doubles the amount of IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) per rack unit compared to the previous generation and increases max raw capacity by up to 50 percent. NEW: Pure Storage FlashArray//ST Continuing to push the boundaries of high-performance platforms, FlashArray//ST™ is a new offering designed to serve the most latency-sensitive workloads such as in-memory databases, large OLTP, log writing, and scale-out and sharded NOSQL databases. FlashArray//ST: Delivers over 10 million IOPS per five rack units through an optimized IO path. NEW: Pure Storage FlashBlade//S Next-generation controller blades in FlashBlade//S™ R2, the latest version of Pure Storage FlashBlade//S, enhance the platform to help organizations accelerate time-to-insight, consolidate infrastructure, and realize faster outcomes from the most demanding data pipelines. FlashBlade//S: Performs up to 30% greater than competitors across critical workloads like genome sequencing, inference, and electronic design automation simulations, as well as other extensive datasets required for effective AI reasoning. NEW: Single Architecture of Block, File, and Object Addressing the explosive growth of unstructured data, Pure Storage extends object support to FlashArray, creating a true single architecture for block, file and object across the entire Pure Storage platform. Object support for FlashArray: Simplifies data management with block, file, and object consolidated on a single unified platform and consistent experience. 'Pure Storage was born to disrupt the industry, as we introduced new capabilities to reliably achieve better and better performance at any scale', continued Colgrove. 'We are unwavering in our mission to enable our customers' ambitions, providing the most innovative and reliable foundation they need to confidently meet any future challenge or opportunity'. Image Credit: Pure Storage
TECHx
30-06-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Pure Storage Unveils Next-Gen Storage Platforms
Home » Emerging technologies » Storage » Pure Storage Unveils Next-Gen Storage Platforms Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), has announced the expansion of its next-generation storage portfolio. The launch includes new innovations designed for high-performance workloads across modern IT environments. The company revealed that its latest advancements are aimed at simplifying data management, accelerating performance, and supporting scalability. This move comes as data volumes grow rapidly and traditional storage infrastructures struggle to keep up. According to John Colgrove, Founder and Chief Visionary at Pure Storage, 'In an era where data is king and IT complexity remains a major hurdle, Pure Storage is once again redefining what's possible.' He added that the company continues to challenge conventional storage models, which limit progress in today's data-driven landscape. Pure Storage reported that its platform now supports an Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) model. This virtualized cloud of data delivers a seamless data layer with consistent control across on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments. At the core of this platform are the enhanced FlashArray™ and FlashBlade® systems. These technologies promise improved reliability, flexibility, and performance across a wide range of workloads. The company introduced several new products: FlashArray//XL R5: Doubles IOPS per rack unit and boosts raw capacity by up to 50%. FlashArray//ST: Targets latency-sensitive workloads, delivering over 10 million IOPS in just five rack units. FlashBlade//S R2: Features next-gen controller blades and offers up to 30% better performance on workloads like genome sequencing and AI reasoning. Additionally, Pure Storage revealed extended object support to FlashArray. This creates a unified architecture for block, file, and object storage. The update simplifies data management and ensures a consistent user experience across the platform. Colgrove emphasized that the company remains focused on performance and scale. 'We are unwavering in our mission to enable our customers' ambitions,' he said. With these updates, Pure Storage continues to position itself as a key player in delivering advanced, reliable, and scalable data storage solutions.
