Design Challenges

Not every monkey is right for the job

It occurred to me today that although most people usually say "any monkey can do my job", this is far from the truth. Many a companies out there would like to believe that with the proper training, any person can do a job. I, in the other hand, am an advocate of hiring a person with the right skill set that would allow them to do their job with minimal training.

Let's face it, how can you hire a Web designer who has only design for print or a writer for which English is a second language. Yet, I see this day in day out in many companies. This companies try and train someone to perform a task for which they seldom have a desire to perform. This is a double whammy since not only the companies looses the time they took to train the employee, but it also causes negativity and low moral within a team and further causes great trauma to the person who is force to quit their job after not being able to perform.

The bottom line is that to make great gains, a company needs to spend a couple of thousand dollars more for the right person with the right skill set, otherwise they will find themselves seeking for a new employee in a couple of month with a lot of money and time wasted.