Building a Community of Non-Technical Talent

Building a Community of Non-Technical Talent

Here's why its so important..

Welcome to the second phase of the tech boom. The first bull run in tech happened a few years back when Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and a bunch of other nerdy guys (to name a few) started building cool stuff with the ever-evolving technology at their disposal.

'What am I talking about?'

The tech revolution that now identifies its members as 'tech bro' and 'tech sis'.

But before I go into any further detail, this is my third article under the #4article4week writeathon series and this week I will be sharing what I am interested in building and most importantly the why behind the what You can catch up on with the last article here.

Back to Steve Jobs, before he hit the tech scene, Bill Gates and several others were already pushing out innovative products built with technical ideas and skills. This movement created a kind of bat signal for other nerdy guys and gals who were interested in tech and building life-changing products with technical skills.

And thus the tech boom began. This mass interest caused a ripple effect in several industries, especially in education as more people wanted to learn and implement these technical skills.

What can I say, if anyone was building life-changing products, they wanted to be a part of it too.

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THE CURRENT TECH BOOM

Yes folks, the tech market is having a bull run.

You read about it on ‘tech insider’ threads on Twitter, you see the cool workstation & remote day-in-my-life videos on TikTok, you watch it on Instagram with the 'break into tech' career reels. There is an admirable amount of content on the internet thanks to tech.

Currently, a considerably large number of people are trying to break into the tech ecosystem and build cool stuff while learning and connecting with each other through the communities at their disposal.

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But this article isn’t really about the nerdy-guys-turn-tech-heroes, it’s about the people on the other side of the door. The ones who ensured that Jobs got his marketing approach right by contributing to Apple's vision. The ones who helped Gates source partnerships and funding by handling paperwork and creating pitch decks and the ones who helped Zuckerberg shape Facebook's consumer-product experience through their input.

These unsung heroes represent the non-technical part of tech. Or as I like to call them, the sunny side up of the tech ecosystem.

NON-TECHNICALS IN TECH

People who fall into the non-technical section of tech are those who possess skills that are not highly technical like coding. Examples of non-technical teams include the Marketing Department, HR and Operations etc

In the tech industry, the non-techies are less concentrated than in other companies/industries but that doesn't make them any less important. Every tech company needs a non-technical team.

The current tech boom has ushered in a new set of non-techies who are as involved in the technical processes like their colleagues. Thanks to the growth of the tech industry and it’s large adoption in the world today, non-techies in tech now have a rooted knowledge of what goes on in tech.

Sure, they might not be able to write ten lines of code or deploy a repository (although I'm sure a couple of them can) but they can understand what these technical terms mean. They aren’t sitting on a fence minding their cubicles and working along the lines of their job description. They are more immersed in the technical side of things.

Yet, it doesn’t fully feel like that.

THE NEED FOR NON-TECHNICAL TALENT

You’re currently reading this article from a tech-based app. Hashnode is a perfect example for illustrating the need to encourage non-technical talent/skills.

On Hashnode, you can find articles from developers, designers and even tech founders.

The convergence of information on this app strikes the perfect balance for people with technical skills who want to express a non-technical skill and non-techies who want to express technical knowledge.

Hope I didn’t lose you there that was a long sentence.

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Feel free to read it again.

Remember the tech-related reels, Twitter threads and TikTok videos you enjoy watching? A line of code didn’t make those even though they might have inspired them. Non-techies made those.

Non-technical talent is the bridge between the crazy world of technological evolution and the average Joe. Imagine a world without snazzy ads that showcase new technological products that could make life 90% easier? A whole decade of technical research, implementation and experimentation boiled down into 2 minutes of enjoyable audio and video.

That’s just a snippet of how beneficial non-technical talent is in the world of tech.

A COMPETENT COMMUNITY

Identifying the importance and need for guiding the growing non-technical talent in tech, I decided to build a competent community.

Don’t worry, we’re not The Avengers or The Guardians of the Galaxy. But a competent group of non-techies dedicated to educating, onboarding and encouraging talent that don’t meet the technical skill pass mark.

WHAT NEXT?

If you’re interested in building the bridge from advanced technology products and the average Joe then you might consider joining this community.

For now, the competent community is still in the works. However, once it’s time for an official launch, you’ll receive a detailed article from me.

(But that’s if you subscribe and follow;)

Till next week!