• Due to the pandemic, millions have had to say goodbye to their existing jobs, as companies and stores make positions redundant or go bankrupt themselves.
• Training oneself or upgrading to newer, better skills seems like a good idea to hedge oneself against the indirect consequences of the virus unleashed on the world this year.
• Many companies and governments have given signals that new skills are key to steady employment.

The push towards reskilling is not a scam, but merely a misalignment of incentives and a myopic focus on ‘skilling’, which does not shine a light on the numerous other factors that prevent people from getting new jobs, or keep them stuck in dead-end jobs:

1. Lack of interoperability bet...