Striving to keep skills relevant is extremely important for all of us. However, am I mistaken or is it becoming increasingly difficult to do so here? I'm about to quit because I've been stagnant here for some time in every possible way.
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That’s right! Credly and all the other acquisitions will save us. That vitriolic, hateful ad-sales-toxic-throwback culture really plays well for innovation in 2023!
Here’s a tip acquired orgs. It’s done. You can take your ball and go home or be a professional and try to work with the organization……sitting on a 500 billion lottery ticket and we’re all too woefully immature and unwilling to change….grow the fu-k up and you might be able to cash in. Stay as you are and watch it all burn down and you wonder why.
Yaaas! No growth and no opportunities in six years!
What are you waiting for? You know what you need to do so go do it! Pearson has absolutely zero to offer other than a nervous breakdown!
The best thing to do is just tailor your resume to the new job's description. Think of the job description as a rubric. Always write to the rubric.
You can get away with this because there's a lot of competing technologies.
For instance, say you worked in project management and spent a lot of time using Agile JIRA at Pearson. The job you want requires experience in Azure DevOps (ADO). You can just lie and say you used ADO at Pearson. JIRA and ADO are not that much different. And if anybody gives you a test, just say that Pearson only had licenses for really old versions. Pearson is always too cheap to have the latest and greatest software licenses.
Or maybe the job wants Tableau experience, and you're still using Excel Pivot Tables. Go download the trial period of Tableau and play around with it. Bo-m, you've got Tableau experience.
Do you think anybody in HR checks the degrees of the contractors they've hired in the past decade to replace American workers? Absolutely not. First of all, everybody in HR was laid off a long time ago and the jobs were shipped to Malaysia.
Development? Fffffft. You can't tell me you're not more woke now after all the DEI training and nonsensical sessions we've had on this stuff. Put that in your resume and smoke it.
Stagnant? never! Haven't you seen Pearson and Credly's wonderful "Verified Achievements" program?