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Love the breakdown - "scrappiness and drive" at 35%. To me resourcefulness is #1 - I don't care if someone has the experience, I care that they can go out and f

• kemiller 16y ago
  You don't think experience helps with that? It frustrates me that our profession seems to have no real career path. It's great that you can hit the ground running, but we do seem to systematically devalue experience. And it DOES matter, though it's obviously not just about years. (I've certainly known plenty of folks who had been doing bad work for decades.) But we don't have any kind of formal mentoring system like you'd see in other professions, and I think we're worse off for it.
  • kenjackson 16y ago
    but we do seem to systematically devalue experience Yes, it does seem like the only mainstream profession where having 20 years of real experience means virtually nothing. IOW, our profession is so shallow that virtually anyone can do your job if they want to.
• joevandyk 16y ago
  Wouldn't it be easier to "figure it out on their own" if they had, say, 20 years of solving similar problems?