What is the new hot skill to have on your resume?

[alkemyst]

Pimp

 

[Mai72]

ATOT post professional?

 

[Silvetti]

IT as a Service

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Clean breaks? No TP ever needed.

 

[hans007]

Ok not the best example. But if you want someone to pick up objective C for example, who do you think can do it better?

A) Recent college grad who knows Java and dabbled in Scheme?
B) The old guy who did Assembly in the 80's, C++ in the 90's, and PHP in the 2000's?

B will whip A's ass in well written Obj C

I'm going to go with whoever is smarter and actually tries.

There are tons of recent college grads who are awful and tons of 10+ year lifers who just hide well who are awful (who probably used to be those awful college grads)

Besides learning "a language" for most senior types who are good is easy. Finding people who are actually smart is difficult.

 

[Train]

I'm going to go with whoever is smarter and actually tries.

There are tons of recent college grads who are awful and tons of 10+ year lifers who just hide well who are awful (who probably used to be those awful college grads)

Besides learning "a language" for most senior types who are good is easy. Finding people who are actually smart is difficult.

No argument there. But if an old guy is still coding, he's probably smart. The non-smart ones either bailed or moved into management/sales/etc. There's a lot less risk when someone has a verifiable work history.

Surviving the Dot Com bubble has gotta be worth something too.

 

[brianmanahan]

Clean breaks? No TP ever needed.

that is truly a skill that i covet