Matt Garman may be the CEO of a major tech company, but the chief of Amazon Web Services (AWS), has rather opposite advice for future job seekers, including his own children, about developing skills in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).
Not in coding, IT, or even medicine. Speaking to CNBC, Matt Garman said he strongly believes in the need to develop more soft skills in the AI era— advice he also gives his children. “Develop your critical thinking skills in college, no matter what subject you study,” he strongly emphasised.
“I think part of going to college is building [your] critical thinking. It’s less about the development of skills, and it really is [about] how do you become a critical thinker? In some ways, I think that’s actually going to be the most important skill going forward,” he added.
Matt Garman’s advice for job seekers in AI age: Develop soft skills
Speaking to the publication, Matt Garman stressed that critical thinking is the “number one, biggest…
