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- From: kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline)
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- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 11:27:08 -0600
- Organization: DSC Communications Corporation Switch Products Division
- Message-ID: <4fl8tc$s6b@sun132.spd.dsccc.com>
- References: <AMCHAVAN.96Jan25112007@ac2.hq.eso.org> <311B828B.2102@crl.com> <4fg14l$ifm@news.asu.edu> <4fic66$aqk@news.cais.com>
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- In article <4fic66$aqk@news.cais.com>,
- Nikolay Dichev <cdsipbs@the-hermes.net> wrote:
- >I could not agree more. There are several ways to get a good
- >professional background, the most structured one - UNIVERSITY. Of course you
- >can learn the same thing by reading books by youself. However the chances
- >are you will miss something or just do not finish the book (ask me about
- >it).
- >
-
- Course instructors may also miss things. There is no guarantee that
- the person teaching the course has expertise in the subject matter.
- Motivated, self-directed study is at least twice as time-efficient as
- taking a course.
-
- >There is another point to be made here. When we are looking for new people
- >the most important thing is - can they stay on the top and continue
- >learning as the business changes.
-
- Exactly.
-
- >Everybody can take a few classes and become a wiz in one product.
-
- If that were true our salaries would be a lot lower. Actually
- relatively few people are able to achieve mastery of even one
- moderately complex programming language (like C++ or Ada).
- Most simply continue to apply the same techniques they do understand
- (usually the ones learned in that first FORTRAN programming course)
- over and over again regardless of the problem or language.
-
- >But tomorrow this product will change or will
- >be gone forever. And then the real question is how trainable are your
- >people.
-
- Right.
-
- >Going through a university prepares you for things like this and
- >assures the employer (with some probability) that you can evolve as the
- >business evolves.
-
- I am not aware of any university that makes such a guarantee regarding
- their graduates.
-
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- Kevin Cline
- B.S. Math CMU 1979
- M.A.S. Telecommunications SMU 1998
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- Kevin Cline
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