Re:Employee motivation ideas for managers and leaders
by mettamage on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:25PM
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> For the most part, the critical limiter on my growth is what people trusted me to do.
Yep, same. I didn't get a job for a year because I'm not experienced enough (graduated 2018 near the top of my class and so on, jobless for past 18 months now). And the companies I applied to most of the time don't look at my resume because (1) I suck at writing it and (2) a lot of experiences get unfairly discounted (creating part of the trust problem). When people did trust me I:
- Taught developers to become a junior web developer and get jobs (yep ironic)
- Prevented a company for reputational damages because their whole developer team walked out and I basically coded their long awaited big update (in a team the first 6 weeks, and then 6 weeks by myself). Without the update, the clients of said company would not have been happy.
- Gave lectures to university students about player frustration and making a website within 4 hours even if you don't have any skill.
- Help people obtain their OSCP certificate.
Just some examples to list. I know that I'm bad at the interviewing game, I'm working on it. My problem is that I'm a generalist, and people don't like to hire generalists I've noticed.
I wasn't experienced at any of this, yet I made it happen. It seems not everyone is familiar with the concept of utilizing transferable skills, and putting trust in such a thing.
They should teach interviewing skills and handling your managers / gaining more trust at university though, because it's a waste of productivity that people who can handle more are not trusted to handle more.
Yep, same. I didn't get a job for a year because I'm not experienced enough (graduated 2018 near the top of my class and so on, jobless for past 18 months now). And the companies I applied to most of the time don't look at my resume because (1) I suck at writing it and (2) a lot of experiences get unfairly discounted (creating part of the trust problem). When people did trust me I:
- Taught developers to become a junior web developer and get jobs (yep ironic)
- Prevented a company for reputational damages because their whole developer team walked out and I basically coded their long awaited big update (in a team the first 6 weeks, and then 6 weeks by myself). Without the update, the clients of said company would not have been happy.
- Gave lectures to university students about player frustration and making a website within 4 hours even if you don't have any skill.
- Help people obtain their OSCP certificate.
Just some examples to list. I know that I'm bad at the interviewing game, I'm working on it. My problem is that I'm a generalist, and people don't like to hire generalists I've noticed.
I wasn't experienced at any of this, yet I made it happen. It seems not everyone is familiar with the concept of utilizing transferable skills, and putting trust in such a thing.
They should teach interviewing skills and handling your managers / gaining more trust at university though, because it's a waste of productivity that people who can handle more are not trusted to handle more.