{"id":3175,"date":"2020-07-27T01:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2020-07-11T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T12:52:22","slug":"hire-a-technician-clerk-or-a-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/07\/hire-a-technician-clerk-or-a-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hire a Technician (Clerk) or a Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What type of person are you trying to hire? The questions you ask answer this question. Please listen to yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you want a scientist or a technician or a clerk? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technicians and clerks are easy to find. Ask what tools they&#8217;ve used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finding a scientist or analyst or other thinker \u2026 Now you have to think a while before asking a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, I have worked as a systems engineer. Many persons in the computing industry confuse the term &#8220;systems engineer&#8221; with &#8220;system administrator.&#8221; They are easy to confuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jobs for system administrators use the names of tools: Linux, Windows, server, Docker, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jobs for systems engineers use terms related to thinking: requirements, ideas, concepts. Oooh. That is sort of fuzzy, hard to put your finger on those things. Concrete things are missing. What do we talk about? How do I judge if a person can think? This hurts my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a tip: Ask the prospective scientist something like, &#8220;How often do you think about the scientific process and its nuances?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips What type of person are you trying to hire? The questions you ask answer this question. Please listen to yourself. Do you want a scientist or a technician or a clerk? Technicians and clerks are easy to find. Ask what tools they&#8217;ve used. Finding a scientist or analyst or other thinker \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,247,109,3,292],"tags":[272,248,223,126,295],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-questions","category-science","category-technology","category-tools","tag-jobs","tag-questions","tag-science","tag-technology","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","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=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}