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This week I’ve been working with a lot of individuals who have a fair amount of knowledge in their fields, but little elsewhere. While this makes a good person to work with, a great person to work with is someone with overlapping knowledge in all aspects of that field. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying being an expert in every field is a necessity, but having some working knowledge of other areas is definitely a bonus. It allows for a more creativity if the person know the entire working process from beginning to end.
For example, in the field of website design / development a good programmer understands not only the basic PHP, ASP, .NET but also has a basic understanding of Flash, CSS, JavaScript, etc. It helps that individual to have a wider understanding of projects and how things should work rather than just being a grunt force. Make sense?
Basically to succeed in this economy a wider knowledge base is needed. If a company is offered either a team of web developers including a graphic designer, programmer, Flash / Animator and a layout person or just one single webmaster, which do you think they are going to prefer? What’s even better is that the webmaster doesn’t even need to have a college degree. Experience in this particular case is much more enticing since the individual will have the skill set to deal with real world issues.
So what is the best way to equip yourself with the necessary knowledge to get a position like this? Basically lots of patience. There are thousands of tutorials on the internet posted daily on each of these topics. Even if you don’t want to become a master at any one skill, take a few tutorials just to brush up on the basics. It shows your company that you are worth your salary. Not to mention, if you aren’t being paid enough, it looks even better on your resume. The really great thing about tutorials is that even if you get stuck there are tons of users in the forums to help you figure out the issues and get you going again. Its an entirely free education and all you need is time! Honestly the world is at your fingertips!
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I usually don’t normally post on many Blogs, still I just has to say thank you… keep up the amazing work. Ok regrettably its time to get to school.
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