In 2011, we had an opportunity to build a location app for an international oil company in Nigeria in the Niger Delta. The app was to enable anyone to press a button on an Android app and quickly the GIS (yes, GPS) location would be sent to security men and police. In our design center, I had hired the best graduating student from Covenant University a year before. Femi was brilliant but he was very young.
But from the US I needed to make a decision: do I use an experienced person or do I ask this young man to stand the team before the oil executives? At the end, I asked Femi to lead the delegation: I was not sure he was even up to 22 years. He did well and we smiled.
That leads me to this post by John Mc Keown at Tekedia: googling is now a skill which someone was proud to put in a resume. Fascinating, but that makes sense. If the time is changing, the bricks and mortars of the age are evolving. What skill do you have which you consider to be ordinary, but which many people truly could value?
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Someone listed a skill as “googling” and the company from there extrapolated that he could be useful for online research. He smiles. She writes well. She laughs. He makes others laugh. etc. Those are skills for the new age.
He is the summary: the only skills which matter are the ones others know you have. Do not hide them!
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