The State Of The Job Market Job Seeking Process Is Reducing Applicants To Desperate Beggars.

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37. I agree

The true innovator may not be able to do the specific task but he knows why that task is important and how it relates to the overall effort. He also knows the principles behind that task.

Based on what I have seen in the workplace, too much emphasis seems to be placed on "how" something is done rather than "why" it is done. And I've noticed that the industry doesn't even realize what they are doing...that they are destroying their own future.

The training proposals I have seen out of this admin reinforce that concept at the expense of academic goals.

If I'm not clear, I'm sorry. I can't seem to find the right way to say it. An example might be the PC guys long ago. They learned, mostly on their own, the concepts and principles of computing on a personal level. Just about all formal education and OJT involved mainframes and analog business machines. These innovators, and there were thousands, me included, managed to adapt those high level concepts to the desktop. In order to do that they needed to be the "jack of all trades" (at least in that arena) and make all the different parts fit together.

They needed to know what was going on in the industrial engineering area, the media lab stuff, the PARC, DARPA's stuff, Usenet, the IBM PC group, etc. And all of that was happening outside the conventional corporate environment.