SOFT SKILLS You know, I’m really proud of our “Skills” system. ( I suppose I cou

SOFT SKILLS

You know, I’m really proud of our “Skills” system. ( I suppose I could turn it into a personality-type system with the right questions. 🙂

We break skills into: 1) like/dislike (equally weighted), 2) soft (equally weighted), 3) hard (weighted) and 4) ‘Desirable’ (a multiplier for the skills a service company weighs most highly).

So, I was trying to explain the weights to everyone. And I said, think of hard skills this way: for us OO Javascript is probably the most valuable hard skill. Say, desirability 10. Php is less scarce, so it’s say an 8. Unix a 7. SQL a 6, and cobol, say, 0.

Likewise there are soft skills. In this company, I think it’s an asset to be short. Why? Do you really have to ask? THere are important soft skills like politeness and ability to dress one’s self. And those are just normal things. They don’t need to have a multiplier, but you need to have them. Say, given my incompetence with Russian, speaking English is worth a multiplier of say 5.

Then we have say, extremely important soft skills like: “Likes Nirvana”, “Drinks Hoegaarden”, “Buys beer for co-workers”, and “Attracts really hot girls” to our table. Now, these are seriously valuable soft skills that significantly contribute to workplace performance, in immeasurable ways.

They laughed. It was fun. The feature is awesome tho. ‘Cause you could actually do it. And more. I get to tell travel around the world with Max Romanenko telling clients similar silly nonsense for a living. 🙂