Accenture CEO Julie Sweet is new to what he has learned in the last 6 months: ‘If they cannot answer this question, we know that they are not students’
Employers are struggling to find the best way to determine the ability they need to lead their work to success in the rapidly changing world of AI. Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, has a simple question to determine whether the interviewers are ready to work.
In an interview In a good company Podcast with Nicolai TangenSweet, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, was asked what he was looking for when hiring new consultants in a $ 64 billion technology giant.
“Be a consultant or a question we ask everyone regardless of whether you are working in technology… We say: ‘What have you learned in the last six months?’
“Most of the time people me, ‘How can I know if someone is a student?’ It is a very simple way to answer this question, and if they can’t answer this question, we know they’re not a student.
When Sweet was asked what Sweet learned in the last six months, the CEO of the CEO was mostly around AI. During the call for an investor in December, Sweet said he met 30 CEOs in the previous two months and that the AI applications were on most of their agendas.
Sweet also said he has managed to learn to cook bread in the middle of the hectic program in the last six months.
Sweet’s question of curve ball for new recruitment is an indication of how companies have changed their recruitment applications after the onset of productive AI, which improves business features in each department and requires a new employee.
The bosses argued that new employees should be dynamic depending on the changing needs of their work and how they can be used to support AI’s work.
Daniel Shapero, LinkedIn’s Chief Operation Officer, Luck He wants potential recruitment to tell them how they use AI to determine whether they have the desire to learn technology at work.
“What this shows is that if you relieve AI, it is more likely to be someone who helps to make their organizations more AI -centered,” he said.
“You hear people planning family trips, you hear people who summarize the meeting grades. You hear people who produce creative ideas for customers. And therefore there are a wide variety of things that can be used for AI.”
Among the increase in the uncertainty about the skill and ability required for the future of the work, Accenture’s Sweet’s Sweet says that a strong human resources department has become increasingly vital.
“I think the best thing to be right now is one of the best areas to be in, because the Gen Ai on the agenda of the CEOs should change completely how you educate talents and abilities.”
Editor’s note: A version of this article was first published on Fortune.com on January 8, 2025.
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