Oddly, I read it as having an orthogonal subject: not having skills, but demonstrating them. The presentation seems to be aimed at the sort of entitled mindset

Oddly, I read it as having an orthogonal subject: not having skills, but demonstrating them. The presentation seems to be aimed at the sort of entitled mindset that believes employers will _just_know_ that they deserve 40k fresh out of college. Whether you have skills or not, if all you do is write your bachelors degree and some dot-points on your resume, you're not going to get much credit from employers. Of course, as your skills go up, the chance that you'll get credit for them increases. Truly world class skills would market themselves. The point, however, is that there _is_ an independence between your skills and employers perception of them. It's not always going to be obvious to an employer that you can provide them with value. It's not enough to simply have skills. It's necessary to demonstrate them, to get them out there. The techniques the presenter outlines might be familiar to someone who has done some reading on the general subject, but to the sort of entitled mindset that the presentation seems to be directed at, they mightn't be so obvious. Blogging, building a portfolio, networking: basic stuff to some, but not to everyone.