John DeVore
Jun 7, 2024

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Many jobs require collaboration, communication, empathy, thinking on your feet, and improvisation. Those "soft skills" will be valuable until A.I. eliminates the need for people to talk to each other.

I find job interviews stressful and boring and I'd welcome any opportunity to connect in a playful way, which this tongue-in-cheek prompt would be.

The world is full of shitty bosses and bigots, and discrimination is a very real plague

but being able to tell a story is a valuable skill in sales, marketing, academia, R&D, project management, contracting, and so on. A resume is storytelling. I tell a story whenever I pitch to an editor or, in the past, when I had to make presentations. I'm not always good at it!

Anyway: I get your point.

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John DeVore
John DeVore

Written by John DeVore

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