Obtaining knowledge and skills that relate to specific professional competencies
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Is further education and training only my responsibility? [duplicate]
Some time ago I read an article like "Your career is your responsibility and yours alone" and I wonder if this is true.
I work as software developer but the company I work for never spend any time ...
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Assigning ownership while denying need for knowledge transfer [closed]
I am currently working as a consultant in a team that manages an externally built application (A) as well as a series of peripheral, internally developed applications (B) that mostly serve as data ...
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Training position after one year of full employment
I have been offered a 6-month software developer training position. I've been working for one year as a software developer employed in another company. The company after the training period, if the ...
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Can I ask the company how the interview will work?
Next week I'll be interviewed for a Trainee Software Developer position. It's gonna be my first real interview after I got my degree and I'd like to understand more how things work.
Is it ...
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How can you deal with receiving no job training without becoming a pest?
I have been in a situation before where I was essentially thrown into a job position with no training whatsoever. It was very much a "sink or swim" environment where I was expected to become ...
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Asking for training during new-hire probation period
I am working in a company for about a month. But I changed my field a bit and I want to learn the unknown stuff. There is a training coming in the next month which I think will be useful for my job. ...
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Lack of recognition in role and career development within role
I joined my company four years ago within a customer care role (email and phone support). The company develops a niche product and I have quite a bit of domain knowledge.
Within that time, my ...
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Roles and expectations of a junior programmer [closed]
Hopefully this is the correct place for this question:
TL;DR: How much should I expect to "figure out" on my own in a major software company's framework and how much should I expect to be trained?
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Taking time off for continuous learning
I make it a point to attend some professional software development conferences every year; I consider this continuous learning. I usually end up taking my own vacation time to do so. Should I ask the ...
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What can I do when I am assigned work that is different from my training?
Four months ago I joined a company and began training on the back-end software systems. However, when I was assigned to a project, I was given the front-end work: JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
I feel ...
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What value to the business is there in sending non marketing people to trade shows?
I understand the value of networking to the people. And with sales and marketing positions these shows add value. However unless you are in marketing I fail to see any value gained by the business in ...
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How do you approach imparting technical knowledge to your superiors?
The people who are in charge of my workplace don't really understand what computers are capable of, mistrust them, and generally have a great deal of difficulty using technology. This is a problem ...
