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I guess in the company I was working for we valued employees with T-shaped skills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
by flor1s 9y ago
I guess in the company I was working for we valued employees with T-shaped skills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills), in which people have one discipline in which they are experts (such as HTML/CSS/JS and the supporting infrastructure) and they have enough experience with the related disciplines (i.e. graphics design, requirements engineering, back-end development) to collaborate with experts in that field.
- chao- 9y agoWhile that naming sounds a bit too MBA-ish for my ears, it does a good job capturing a concept that I have been trying to pin down for a while now in terms of the types of job candidates that have worked out best for me. Thank you for the metaphor, and for what it's worth, I agree in it being a desirable skill distribution. Incidentally, people at our company who have acquired said combination of wide skill breadth with a specific skill depth, got there because one employer or another (not always us) hired them when they were intent on (or already in the process of) a change of role. For instance, someone with a few years in graphics design who, when given a chance to (or being required to) work with HTML and CSS, found that not only did they like it, they wanted to learn and do more, even if that meant transitioning There are all sorts of questions I have about how that might fit into the arc of someone's career, how it affects salaries, and so on. Furthermore, I do not think it should be the only lens by which to assess people's skills, at the exclusion of all else. It just seems that many of our A-Players, as it were, came into our organization with that sort of skill distribution, or quickly grew to have it.