What do you mean you don’t get the chance to learn new skills? There are plenty of free resources on the internet to teach yourself new skills.
When I’m looking for the behavioral traits I wouldn’t care if they could only tell me stories about being the shift lead at McDonalds.
You realize I only got a job at a company that anyone has ever heard of at 46?
It’s called “work ethic”. Right now, I am building a team where the actual coding is really simple in the grand scheme of things. Since ChatGPT is well trained on the AWS SDK, the CDK, etc. you could literally use it to do 90% of the work.
But the organizational complexity, business rules, etc are complicated and we are still figuring everything out. I need someone with the following behavioral traits. I’m going to frame them in terms of the Amazon LPs since it gives everyone a publicly available point of reference:
- Customer Obsession
- Ownership
- Learn and Be Curious
- Bias for Action
- Dive Deep
- Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
- Deliver Results
If you have any kind of work experience at the mid or senior level you should be able to demonstrate those.
I could answer “tell me about a time when” type questions three years out of college graduating from my no name HBCU in the south after my first job.
