What if they don't know the basics?
This is an interesting issue I came across today.
Many people don't know this about me, but I do and have done some tech consulting in the past.
It's a side thing.. It makes some extra cash flow each month, but it's not something I really passionate about.
Tech consulting is basically just solving 1 headache after another and dealing with annoyed people all day.
I prefer not to do it, but sometimes I'll take on a small gig.
Today, for example, I was asked to compress a bunch of photos into a smaller size for a company.
They had to follow some rigid guidelines for uploading their photos for some website thing that they were participating in.
Anyways, it got me to thinking:
this is such a basic computer task. I mean, all you have to do is right click the photos and hit compress, yet these people have no clue how to do it.
How do people work at a company and spend the majority of their time working on the computer yet still don't know how a basic computer functions?
Fundamental skills are always the most important. Many people don't realize this. That's what makes people like me so hirable and so desirable by companies... I have the fundamental skills to really go in any direction needed. Problem-solving is another way of looking at it.