>>I disagree quite strongly with this. My grounds are that I think
>>the process of learning from what we do is sooo important to
>>*everything* that if potential employers do not look at it they
>>are wasting the most valuable piece of information and perhaps
>>they would benefit from some education. It needs IMHO
>>not to be an addendum but to be in main focus. How well
>>a person learns and adapts to change and matures is FAR more
>>important in every job I can think of than anything else because
>>its unlikely their competencies will match precisely with the
>>real requirements of the real job even if they do on paper.
>>This will be more the case as we move from being industrial
>>to information societies.
>>
>>I agree with your points below though and think otherwise this
>>is a really good, concise description.
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> Andy, there is some justification in what you say, however do you have any
> evidence that there are (significant numbers of) employers out there who are
> interested in doing this and capable of doing it; and if so that they see
> portfolios rather than say psychometric testing or interviews as the way to
> do this? There are amny ways in which most of us would like to change the
> education system (abolish exams and encourage learning for its own sake are
> a couple of mine), but we have to fit with the political realities. So, is
> this a long term ambition or something that we should be attempting to
> achieve now?
Well Tom this is chicken and egg. Its a bit like the repressed
demand argument applied to cyclists (of which I'm sure you have
personal experience as do I) - people will say that there is no
case to provide cycling facilities because there are no cyclists.
If there are roads people can drive on them. If there are no
roads you won't find significant numbers of people that say
they drive on them so you won't be able to count those people.
I think the provision of computer systems in this area is not
only about providing support for what people are doing now but
its about providing support for what they might want to do when
they realise what can be possible. If it were just maintaining
the status quo there would be no point. But I believe the world
and people in it can and do change, little by little and we need
to support directions of change, just a little, not with big bangs,
but just enough to enable things. This is a good job
because there's an awful lot of killing going on just now.
I have enough errors in my own life pattern that I would much
prefer in applying for a job to say "look this is what I
did, some things I got right, some wrong and here is how
I learned from those things and here is where I am now".
I think most people could say something similar because this
is how we learn IMHO. There is more than competencies and
bullshit presentation in any job I would want to have.
This is what I think bridges the gap between those things
that can be precisely tested and those that can't.
I don't think psychometric testing can hack it.
The older we get the more we have reflections and the
less we have competencies I think! The reflections
are the valuable part IMHO.
Andy Heath
Axelrod Research and Consulting
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