Shivakumar: Companies will hire for soft skills and train hard skills
Shiv Shivakumar · How to Think Like a CEO & Build Like a Fighter | Shiv Shivakumar, Ex-CEO Nokia & Pepsico · Oct 28, 2025 · at 1:16:45
Shiv Shivakumar, former CEO of PepsiCo India and Nokia India, explains how the rise of AI will invert corporate hiring priorities.
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“So I think, I personally believe in a future world, we will hire for soft skills and train for hard skills. In the past, we hired for hard skills and trained for soft skills.”
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