Question 05-02
“Should you be yourself in seeking a job or be the Jack of all trades”?
Please watch this video.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fayad-founder-ceo_if-you-need-help-feeling-calm-during-stressful-activity-7069507984090927104-8ont?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fayads-innovations-23-003011-5-1-why-appropriate-role-m-e-fayad
Discussion:
My Friend: Here's the exciting reality: As more and more roles become increasingly complex (be it due to:
* Poor planning
* Poor architecture
* Poor design.)
My Reply:
Let's make this point clear – Each actor (human, Hardware, Smart Software, and Creature) and each legal party (Human, Organization, Country, Political Party) play a role or more in each scenario. These roles may change or continue the same for each scenario. Let me give you an example – Here are some of your roles at home: Father, Husband, Helper, Supporter, care Giver, and others. The roles are two types – Good and Bad. So you may play one or more roles per scenario. Example: You, as a supporter, support your son. In the same scenario, you may also be a Care Giver to your son. In both roles, you be a good supporter and Care Giver, or you may be a lousy supporter and good Care Giver, or you may be terrible in both. What do you think if you fail all the time in both cases? What will the result be? How about you may be very good at both. What do you think if you fail all the time in both cases? What will the result be?
My Friend: I have noticed that only some managers (Interviewers) can define the job. Fewer still can explain what a successful candidate should be able to accomplish or how to succeed in the role can be objectively measured!
My Reply: I think you need help figuring out if the candidate can accomplish the job well, and there is no way you can measure the role objectively and subjectively.
My Friend: Therefore, it becomes my job as a candidate to show the manager how I would make their life better by helping them to define tangible, measurable, and ultimately SMART goals.
My Reply:
Very Strange!
Many issues in this statement:
(1) There are existing managers you cannot please because they need to act their roles better.
(2) Goals are not tangible; therefore, you cannot measure goals you do not know.
(3) SMART is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. The SMART method is only helpful if you learn to define enduring goals.
(4) Everything around you in the universe, including concepts, has concrete Enduring Goals from one Goal (The majority of things), two Goals (a few of things), and three Goals (Very Rare), and all of them play their roles very well except Actors and legal parties.
My Friend: Gone are the days when having some specialized skills was adequate to get the job done. Instead, most employers seek Jack's or Jill's of all trades.
My Reply:
Jack or Jill of all trades are hypocrites. They cannot do the job, cannot do anything, and are the "Master of none" It points out that a "Jack of all trades" does not truly master any skill or profession. So, it is usually an insult. The idea of a "Jack of all trades" has existed since the 1600s. Why a company? They need someone like this unless they kiss----- !!!
My Friend: There are myriad reasons that the entire situation is inherently dysfunctional, especially in the software engineering domain. Therefore, it's not adequate just to be yourself. It would help if you aspired to be more in this era.
My Reply:
(1) You want to be a hypocrite and a Master of none!!!
(2) Hypocrites and "masters of none" exist in all fields of knowledge, including the software engineering domain, for many reasons. You will find them everywhere around you.
(3) BE YOURSELF is not adequate!!!!! Are you admitting that you are the Jack of all trades? I know you are a very professional programmer, and you are not a master of none, and I admire this about you. We partnered on many projects, producing excellent, well-cited articles and innovative, applicable ideas.
My Friend: We can have dialog and even debate whether cultural factors promote dishonesty, and sometimes it does, but unfortunately, we live in an imperfect world.
My Reply:
Your statement is true, but you are responsible for your roles, and others judge you based on the roles you play anywhere.
My Friend: It's a chicken and egg problem.
My Reply:
It has nothing to do with a chicken and egg problem. We must build systems and apply our roles within our systems correctly, and to do this, you must -
“Be Yourself.”
This discussion is based on the following TED video.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fayads-innovations-23-003011-4-should-we-start-using-role-m-e-fayad
I understand this as an advice question. Be yourself. If yourself is a jack of all trades, be a jack of all trades.
I also understand your question differently than what you asked. If you are a jack of all trades, there are many jobs that are available to you. You want to be a part of something. You want to be of service. I get it. If you offer yourself as a jack of all trades, you miss out on the focus of resolving a specific problem, of being able to delve deeply into a problem of specialization. The problem isn't "What should you do?" It is "What do you want to do?" "Who are you, really?"
What is your passion? Money? Environment? Children? Technology? Machinery? Helping? Power? Competition?
I suspect you ask this question because you want to contribute and haven't found the right match. I'd like to offer this. Find a job you want and concentrate on getting it. People who hire are looking for a reason to rule someone out. It's easy to find. Finding a person who specializes in exactly what they want is easy with the Internet. But if my experience is like most other people in the position to hire, most of the people they find who claim to have in-depth knowledge in the field don't. What they are missing is that an Internet search for words doesn't get the person who will work their heart out to get the job done. That is you. So, find the job you want and concentrate on it. Find someone to talk to and talk to them. Put a lot of attention into getting a job from a few places rather than a little attention over a bunch of jobs. In the same way that you browse a million jobs and rule out most, they browse a million applications and don't read the answers to the 50-question survey and resume for most applicants. In looking for a job, you are trying to get around the mental barriers that people erect to protect themselves from overload. Once the dam has a hole, keep working it. You will never make a hole without concentrating on the job you want.
I hope this advice helps.
You said that "I understand this as an advice question. Be yourself. If yourself is a jack of all trades, be a jack of all trades."
To make it clear, your interpretation of the question is not accurate.
Here is the question: "Should you be yourself in seeking a job or be the Jack of all trades"?
(1) To be yourself only (when anyone applies for the job, understand the functional and non-functional requirements ("The What") and ultimate design ("The How-to") of the Employment or the job, or
(2) To be the jack of all trades (you do not know the functional and nonfictional requirements ("The What") and most likely do not know the ultimate design ("The How-to"). We are suffering all over the world because the jacks of all trades are "Masters of none." they prevent qualified individuals from having jobs, and they are usually very destructive.
(3) Not both.
You started with a wrong assumption (self-interpretation of the question) by saying, "If yourself is a jack of all trades, be a jack of all trades."
Employment is a concern to all of us, and I am writing a book on Employment (as an enduring concept that is a goal of itself for every human on earth because we believe all that is written on the idea of Employment has nothing to do with existing massive writing that is related to Employment.
Are you kidding me? No.
We discovered more than 50 innovative keys per concept and more than 100 new pieces of facts about the concept of "Employment" no one knows. Where our concept classification is three types:
(1) Enduring Business Themes (EBTs)
(2) Business Objects (BOs), and
(3) Industrial Objects (IOs).
We call the new field of knowledge "Unified Concept Engineering (UCE)."
We must think of the following:
(1) The concept, such as "Employment" as "Unified Employment," where any concept will fit all the scenarios of employment scenarios.
(2) The concept of "Emolument" is a human right for everyone, including "The Jacks of all trades."
(3) Denial of jobs for qualified most of the time is related to insecurity, selfishness, and discrimination, such as Agism and high salaries.
(4) The funny thing is that the interviewer indicates "Overqualified," and the advice to the employers is "By making sure you don't say that they are overqualified - because you could get hit with a possible age discrimination lawsuit. Being overqualified is unfortunately not considered an Objective reason to disqualify a candidate."
Quotes About "The Jack of All Trades"
"Geniuses founded our country, but idiots are running it." John Kennedy
"Actors become jacks of all trades and masters of none."
Josh Lucas
"The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise except airports and exotic foods."
Timothy Radcliffe.
In fact, I always teach the functional and non-functional concepts of "Employment" at the beginning of all my classes, and later, I teach them the design of it.
We will illustrate most of the innovative keys of "Employment" in two volumes of books soon.
Next Question 05-4
What is your passion? Money? Environment? Children? Technology? Machinery? Helping? Power? Competition? In Question 05-4 will be reply to my next reply.
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