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by marcosdumay
926 days ago
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One really important issue with your first point is that everybody hiring is filtering by experience in SaaS, framework, and as a last resort, language. Nobody is searching for knowledge of the fundamentals. But anyway, my take is that the problem the article is describing is caused by the existence of way too many fundamentals that can't all be practiced. |
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There are those that have resumes tailored to a single particular thing that if hot right now, will have 1000 recruiters after them to run certain grid studies. I'm more of a fundamentalist (need to think of a better term)for my field where I can tell you the underlying math behind most of the studies performed, familiar with the pro/cons of a dozen different application softwares, can code, use SQL, Linux whatever. I'm also a people person, which is helpful as there is a lot of stakeholder interaction. If you understand the equations/theory and how all the technical junk works....there aren't many roles in my industry I can't get up to speed on in very little time, while having a global understanding for how it fits as a cog in the bigger machine. This isn't true of most in my industry unfortunately. Many many only know a single role, have experience with one tool, don't understand the math behind the tools, can't code or do data analysis... etc.
I've found the broad/general experience to be very valuable, but it's harder to convey that to recruiters sometimes that are looking for "X". I sometimes have to tell them that what I have is highly transferable to "X" and that I have a bunch of other goodies their employer would be very interested in. Sometimes it works if they're communicating with the manager looking to fill the role and not HR. If I can actually talk to someone at the company.... usually not hard to arrange, then they've often offered to make a custom role as well. I know it always isn't the same for software shops or large companies with layers of beauracracy, but that's my experience.