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THANK YOU for making this point.
zack florence
BC, Canada
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"R. Allan Reese" wrote:
>
> I pass job adverts from the list on to our careers advisors, but note that
> many specify knowledge of SAS as essential or an advantage. The comment
> I would like to pass back to recruiters is that highlighting one tool may
> be restricting their intake and may be counter-productive. It smacks of
> the government straitjacket that all education should be "relevant and
> vocational", in other words "training" is exactly the Barbara Woodhouse
> sense (NB she trained dog *owners*).
>
> As it happens, this university does not provide or support SAS, but my
> argument would apply to any named software. A person who claims intimate
> knowledge of one product and no more may be technically highly competent,
> but is not necessarily a data analyst. On the other hand, a good versatile
> analyst can quickly be trained or pick up the use of a new tool - hell, we
> seem to have to do this with every new version of "the same" software on
> a regular basis.
>
> Some suggestions are that, unless you expect only a short-term employment,
> your adverts might read "package x or equivalent" or "experience of
> software (we use package x)", and that your interview panels should
> explicitly probe for evidence that applicants have used software
> *critically*.
>
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