tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post7148047703596071464..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): no English-speakers need applygenkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-52952000753272639462017-09-01T10:16:46.578-04:002017-09-01T10:16:46.578-04:00The page also links to a story on ludicrous job ti...The page also links to a story on ludicrous job titles, an apparent effort to humanize and enthuse the worker.<br /><br />"Recruitment website Indeed.com believes meaningless suffixes like “ninja” “rockstar” or “guru” tacked on to relevant descriptive terms like “database” or “coding” – while ostensibly harmless to those in the know – are alienating. They also risk infantilising highly intelligent professionals in the same way that putting hammocks and slides in offices does."<br /><br />"Even established job titles cause confusion. As of June 2017, major employers like Sky, Ovo Energy and American Express were among the thousands to post job adverts for the position of “scrum master” – a software development role, similar in scope to a project manager. Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job title, or didn’t know for sure if it was real. The study found that some of the more widely advertised tech job titles were not only meaningless to outsiders, but were actually deemed “implausible”."<br /><br />With such outcomes, who can pick up the classifieds and find a job? Recruitment companies will be needed just for the inside information that could translate titles to actual skill sets. It's strikes me as similar to removing public drinking fountains, ostensibly for health reasons, that force folks to buy over priced bottles of water.<br />olcharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00309255390011851502noreply@blogger.com