Surprising Realities
IT support in Oakland derived from individuals strong enough to adapt will be superior. Say, you’re looking at candidates for a new MSP position at your company, and there are dozens with exceptional skills, education, and experience, but they can’t handle change. They’ve got to have things their way. For example, Jill needs a specific schedule, and she needs a specific suite of operating programs and a specific kind of hardware. If she gets what she needs, she can do what she says. If she doesn’t, she’s essentially defunct. Meanwhile, Steve is good with any hardware, but if you ask him to do something out-of-the-ordinary, he makes the sound of a jungle tribe encountering fire for the first time and starts shaking— he’s socially inept. Then, there’s Bill. He doesn’t have any direct specialization like Jill, and he isn’t quite as good with multiple systems as Steve; but he learns quickly, transitions faster, and has the ability to socially engage. Bill has adaptability. In the long run, that’s going to pay off more than a singular acumen or asocial personality.
Diamonds in the Rough
IT support in Oakland can represent a difficult challenge for human resources. How does one parse between Bill, Jill, and Steve? They all do their best to represent themselves as cogent and adaptable during interviews. Their inability to roll with the punches— or their exceptional ability to do this thing— is not obvious directly. The best way to see through this is to look for attitude. Work experience, education, job skills— these things matter, but attitude and personality are much more telling features of cogent support.
Teach HR Personnel to Value Certain Characteristics
Hiring personnel need to look at “soft skills” like personality, adaptability, and capability of being instructed. Most of your IT needs aren’t going to be as complicated as some candidates’ skill-sets. RFID tagging is something any competent employee could do… if led in the right direction. Rebooting a computer isn’t terribly difficult either. Granted, you need skills for other echelons of engagement, but if you’re at the point where you have an HR department, you’ve probably got some echelon of IT in place already to train new-hires in how things work. So look for IT support that’s:
• Trainable
• Scalable
• Personable
• In Possession of a Positive Attitude
Does MS-DOS proficiency mean anything to your business today? It sure was important 20 years ago. What programs today will be essentially defunct tomorrow? Your IT people need to be able to adapt, and “experts” tend to have a static developmental curve. An eagerness to learn and grow trumps professional snobbery. Additionally, such snobbery is less likely to be upwardly mobile, and more likely to be laterally mobile. They’ll tread water with you until they find a better position with another company, then repeat the process with that company to climb higher on the ladder. Meanwhile, somebody with a good attitude who learns from you is more likely to be retained perpetually.
Perfect Candidates?
IT support in Oakland from specialized, over-qualified candidates has a high likelihood of blowing up in your face due to human arrogance. Scalable, teachable attitudes yield more quantitatively over time. We at OneClick Solutions Group cultivate such attitudes in our personnel and strive to bring our clients flexible solutions that adapt with necessary changes for the greatest perpetual utility.