I saw this on Seth Godin's blog the other day, and I couldn't help but be intrigued by it. I can do everything on this list, it comes rather naturally to me. But I know several of my coworkers who can't, and I have a fairly technological job! This really does show the growing divide of productivity, that is, a growing number of employees are disqualified for technical jobs before they even get a chance to apply, because they cannot perform some of these tasks.
The other day I was helping a friend of mine (who is in his 50's) to look for jobs online. Almost all of the labor jobs even required the applicant to submit his or her resume and locate openings online. My friend can hardly use a mouse. His lack of technological know-how practically disqualifies him from finding even a labor position. Without further ado, the list exactly reproduced from Seth Godin's blog:
- Can you capture something you see on your screen and paste it into Word or PowerPoint?
- Do you have a blog?
- Can you open a link you get in an email message?
- Do you read more than five blogs a day?
- Do you have a signature in your outbound email?
- Do you have an RSS reader?
- Can you generate a PDF document from a Word file you're working on?
- Do you know how to build and share a simple spreadsheet using Google Docs?
- Do have a shortcut for sending mail to the six co-workers you usually write to?
- Are you able to find what you're looking for on Google most of the time?
- Do you know how to download a file from the internet?
- Do you back up your work?
- Do you keep track of contacts using a digital tool?
- Do you use anti-virus software?
- Do you fall for internet hoaxes and forward stuff to friends and then regret it?
- Have you ever bought something from a piece of spam?
Can you do everything on this list? How do you "measure up" to the productivity divide?
UPDATE: jWinters made a more low-tech list to poll church workers about their technological know-how. Check it out at Theotechnology: Technological Efficiency for Church Workers.
2 comments:
Hah....apparently great minds think alike :-)
in Christ,
jW
Ha ha! I just noticed your blog on my G-Reader. I'll be sure to link to your list as well.
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