March 23 2021 - Today's Hottest Jobs

 

The jobs that came up for the hottest jobs were a sorry group - caregiver, nurses aide, and so on.  I was thinking more about careers that young people might aspire to, not minimum wage jobs.  So I eventually found the hot jobs in IT. Today a project in IT is managed by someone with a certificate in PMP, PMI or Scrum Master.   There's a title! What would I do as a Scrum Master? "As a Scrum Master, you’ll help your team perform at their highest level. As the expert of Scrum values, principles, and practices, the Scrum Master protects the team from both internal and external distractions. Scrum Masters tend to be people-oriented, have a high level of emotional intelligence, and a passion for helping their team members thrive." "In a nutshell, Scrum requires a Scrum Master to foster an environment where: A Product Owner orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog. The Scrum Team turns a selection of the work into an Increment of value during a Sprint. The Scrum Team and its stakeholders inspect the results and adjust for the next Sprint. Repeat" Scrum brings to mind the dictionary definition - a place or situation of confusion and racket; hubbub. verb (used without object).  The Scrum approach is based on the rugby formation of players - locking arms, packed closely together with their heads down, attempting to gain possession of the ball.   Isn't this an obvious male athlete metaphor. It makes me think somehow this is attractive to engineers.  That's because I remember them at Imperial Oil talking about playing "toilet footfall" which they called a "scrum game".  The football is thrown high in the air and everyone piles towards and then onto the person it will land on or will catch it.  Hence the toilet reference as the person and football are buried far below the group.   Soon the first Daffodils will be blooming - not these, though, these are the last to bloom Poeticus, Poet's daffodil. Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Hyphenated-Specialist or Chief Chatter Officer

We are in the age of creativity where convoluted jobs and job titles  are a mark of prestige.  What would you be doing if you were the Chief Chatter?  You'd be the Call Centre Manager.  What about an Animal Colourist - the person who dyes animals for movies and marketing campaigns. A Digital Overlord is a website manager.  A Cheese Sprayer - someone who sprays cheese or butter by hand on popcorn. Here are job titles that the author could not figure out and labelled indecipherable: 43.  Under Secretary to the Sub-Committee – ????? 44.  Hyphenated-specialist – ?????? 45.  Second Tier Totalist – ?????? 46.  Actions and Repercussions Adviser – ?????? 47.  Professionalist International and world-wide optical and vision-focused tenured professorship – ?????? 50.  Chief Biscuit Dunker – ?????? An in-depth article comes from Fortune.  It identified 20 ridiculous job titles in well-known companies held by real people.  Here are a few in the article HERE.    Paranoid In Chief  Company: Yahoo  Description: Let’s be honest — Paranoid in chief sounds much more intriguing than plain old “chief information security officer.” And it makes sense: Yahoo’s entire cybersecurity division is known as “the Paranoids.”  In-House Philosopher Company: Google Description: This title is proof that your philosophy degree could land you a job at Google. Even the search giant needs someone to turn to when it has a question. The company literally employed someone whose job is to solve engineering problems using “a humanistic perspective.” Chief Executive Unicorn Company: PowToon Description: Because there aren’t enough unicorns, there’s one over at PowToon as well. Ilya Spitalnik is CEO (or CEU) of the company that sells software to make animated explainer videos. However, it looks like Spitalnik may have recently changed his title to “Chief Renegade Scientist.” I wonder what Dezi's job title is in the vineyard at Legend's Winery, located on the shore of Lake Ontario.