35-year-old programmer, old enough to eat?

The “35 year old crisis” is not only enveloped in the head of the programmer group, but also may be a microcosm of the “banana green disease” of talents in the digital age. Faced with the challenges of rapid iteration of new technologies, deep integration of digital technology and business, and continuous innovation and development of enterprises, “What is the most expensive in the 21st century?” The problem will be the same again.

Where to find digital talent? How to develop digital talents? Fu Xiaoyan, vice president of Geekbang and director of the “Even number” Research Institute, said: “The training of digital talents should be ‘targeted’, and this’ ‘is the digital economy, we must focus on the needs of the development of the digital economy, explore and cultivate the digital talents needed by The Times.”

Digital talent training should be targeted

The Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan defines digital transformation as follows: embrace the digital age, activate the potential of data elements, promote the construction of a network power, accelerate the construction of a digital economy, a digital society, and a digital government, and drive the transformation of production methods, lifestyles, and governance methods as a whole through digital transformation. Under the strong promotion of national policies, the giant wheel of digital transformation is rolling forward, from high-speed growth to high-quality growth, the overall transformation is reshaping an era, and “data, network and (hardware and software) tools” will be an important starting point to promote digital transformation. We need to look at and advance digital transformation from a more holistic, interconnected and systematic perspective.

So, what new requirements does the digital economy based on digital transformation put forward for us? The 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Digital Economy describes the digital economy as follows: data resources are the key elements, modern information networks are the main carriers, and the integrated application of information and communication technologies and all-factor digital transformation are the important driving forces to promote a new economic form that is more unified in fairness and efficiency. It is not difficult to find that the important starting point of “data, network and (hardware and software) tools” is emphasized again; From a deeper perspective, in the process of realizing industrial digitalization and digital industrialization, platformization is not only the embodiment of core competitiveness, but also a new business model.

The development of the digital economy is based on the premise of digital transformation, which is not to shout slogans, but to do real work, which requires a large number of relevant digital talents. Generally speaking, the so-called digital talents are “talents who master digital work skills”, including special technical talents, horizontal technical architecture talents, business and technology composite talents, business talents who master digital thinking, and managers who master digital thinking. Only by fully combining with the three elements of the digital economy – “data, network and tools”, that is, mastering and using digital tools, efficiently processing and mining data, and integrating into the ecology through network collaboration, can digital transformation be effectively promoted, including the transformation and improvement of personal career, and the transformation and development of enterprise business, in fact, in one stroke It’s two out.

Fu Xiaoyan concluded that in enterprises, the reasonable layout of digital talents should be from the digital technical talents at the base of the pyramid, to the digital application talents at the middle layer, and then to the digital management talents at the top of the pyramid. From the current situation, the demand for specialized technical talents and digital thinking business talents is the largest, which is the focus of current digital talent training. Although managers with digital thinking are a minority, they are indispensable leaders of enterprise digital transformation.