Enterprises have been always concerned with the opportunities they offer for qualified people. But the question is, Do they look for geeks or good team players with excellent communications skills and fine academic aptitude?
Generally speaking, Computer/Techy geeks have been known for their limited and sometimes crippled social/presentation skills. They can’t leave the techie terms for any reason. And If you want a perfect mismatch, let the geek do a presentation for managers or salespersons… Trust me, It will crack you up!
On the other hand, the good team players or as I prefer to call “rounded employees” can deliberately get to the point with a polish and smooth speaking skills. I like those guys when it comes to a mission of information-delivery. I gotta admit, they’re really awesome!
One of my funniest moments, before six months ago, I had to present an introductory session on building an SOA framework for one of our partners. I did a lot of dry-runs before getting into that session. Fortunately, I had my toughest friend Alaa to play the audience role and he was fantastic on highlighting many weak areas in my presentation. Thanks Alaa!
But this wasn’t the end, I started that presentation perfectly on the first 15 minutes in a smooth and easy-to-understand language. I was proud of myself during those minutes of being a good speaker, the audience were shaking their heads in a harmony as an understanding sign, I was saying to myself “keep it up geeky speaky, those are your smashing moments”.
Afterwards, I didn’t know what actually happened, All what I remember is an inexplicable change in their faces which after awhile turned out into smiley faces. Sadly, I can feel what that really means “What the heck are you babbling about!”, I started to explain many techie areas in the Web-Services Stack within an SOA Framework. Finally, it went fine after all that hassle… At least from my perspective!
The bottom-line here is that if you’re looking for a geek, you have to fit him in the right working environment. It’s a resemblance of a sophisticated network topology. The geeks are the internal network, and the rounded employees are the perimeter network “DMZ zone”…
I still believe that employees can fit any where as long as there is a commitment for a challenging and promising environment. But what really matters is the best-fit recruitment which indicates that rounded staff are most likely to be a best-fit for enterprises, where geeks are struggling as freelancers “self-employed” or in a freelancing-alike environment “You’re right, It’s Google”.
