One question I always ask people I interview is "How do you keep yourself up to date." And the answers are very interesting. I have been taught many things which I had no idea about. Websites, blogs, communities, books (no, not so much).
Sometimes, while talking they talk about something and I note them for looking up.
So, an interview becomes a two way process. Where I get to learn something from those who I meet and hopefully, they go back with a nugget or two (and I try to ensure that they takeaway something - hopefully useful).
But over a while now, through the interviewing process, while there are people learning from Linkedin, HBR (and similar ones), blogs, courses, Articulate - the number of people who mention Twitter (as a learning mechanism) has been zero - which is quite surprising for me. Also, very few people seem to mention books as a source. Thankfully, nobody has mentioned Facebook so far.
Though on balance, people generally mention "internet" as a catch all bucket and then a blog here and there, but there is no one single prevalent source/sources. Very few mention any of the known sites like CEC/CLC, ATD, Bersin. And noticeably almost no one has mentioned any Indian website or blog. And twitter has a significant Indian presence. Worth thinking this IMO - for both sides of the table.
It is also good to see people highlight MOOCs on their resumes...
(Bunch of other thoughts, but thats it for now...)
Sometimes, while talking they talk about something and I note them for looking up.
So, an interview becomes a two way process. Where I get to learn something from those who I meet and hopefully, they go back with a nugget or two (and I try to ensure that they takeaway something - hopefully useful).
But over a while now, through the interviewing process, while there are people learning from Linkedin, HBR (and similar ones), blogs, courses, Articulate - the number of people who mention Twitter (as a learning mechanism) has been zero - which is quite surprising for me. Also, very few people seem to mention books as a source. Thankfully, nobody has mentioned Facebook so far.
Though on balance, people generally mention "internet" as a catch all bucket and then a blog here and there, but there is no one single prevalent source/sources. Very few mention any of the known sites like CEC/CLC, ATD, Bersin. And noticeably almost no one has mentioned any Indian website or blog. And twitter has a significant Indian presence. Worth thinking this IMO - for both sides of the table.
It is also good to see people highlight MOOCs on their resumes...
(Bunch of other thoughts, but thats it for now...)
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