A close friend told me her story about how she lost a high-paying middle management job because she could not demonstrate her use of MS Excel at the last stage of her interview. She had worked a lot in her field and had all the necessary qualifications required. Only to lose that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because she could not complete the Microsoft Excel task she was presented with.
At a bootcamp in finance a few years ago, carried out by the Davids Graduate School of Finance, our mentor explained to us why they run the bootcamps they do every year. Due to their position in the industry, they get requests from local and foreign organisations to recommend or recruit employees for them. A particular occurrence they never forgot is when, at the final stage of the interview, the foreign company representative had asked the applicants (PhD graduates) who made it to the final stage a Value Added Tax form to fill out, and none could fill it out. Needless to say, they were terribly disappointed, one of the reasons they run their summer bootcamps.
They are not alone.
We come across these and similar stories every day. They leave one with a mouth wide open in surprise. These and many more drive the core of what we do, which we believe is, first and foremost;
Understanding Technology
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