{"id":2988,"date":"2019-10-24T01:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T06:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2019-10-12T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T13:01:30","slug":"scientists-or-technicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/10\/scientists-or-technicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists or Technicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It can be a sobering question, but one that we should address.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: Do you want to hire a scientist or a technician? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: A scientist, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: But the job description lists a lot of tools, software and otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: Yes, of course. The person needs to use these tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: Do you want to hire a scientist or a technician?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: Technicians use tools. Scientists delve into scientific thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: Well, maybe in theory, but we also need the scientist to&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: Do technician jobs now and then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: Yeah, that&#8217;s right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: Okay, is the technician part of the job 10% or 90%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: Well, I guess like 20%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: Then make it 20% of the job description, 20% of the interview, 20% of the hiring decision, 20% of the performance evaluation, 20% of the&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: Okay, I get it, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: There is no but. Do you want to hire a scientist or a technician?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It can be a sobering question, but one that we should address. Person A: Do you want to hire a scientist or a technician? Person B: A scientist, of course. Person A: But the job description lists a lot of tools, software and otherwise. Person B: Yes, of course. The person needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,18,271,109,3,292],"tags":[294,140,272,223,126,295],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts","category-employment","category-jobs","category-science","category-technology","category-tools","tag-concepts","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-science","tag-technology","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}