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September 22, 2016 12:00 AM   Subscribe

What are specific essentials required to do the work you do that would not be listed in your job description or key selection criteria for your work ? And why?
posted by oink to Work & Money (3 answers total)

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I'm a senior manager in tech at a Fortune 500 company. No one told me that I'd basically have to become an amateur psychologist to be a great team leader and good at serving my customers. Damn good thing I happened to take and internalize a few basic psych and interpersonal communications courses in college.
posted by erst at 12:59 AM on September 22, 2016


As a nurse, it's essential for my patients' well-being and my own sanity that I subtly guide other medical professionals to make the decisions I want them to make, often without them realizing what's happening, and then allowing them to take all the credit for the good outcomes that result.

I think of it as a kind of topping from the bottom, and that's definitely not in the job description. As for why... Nurses are overwhelmingly female. Other medical providers, until recently, were not. Can't make it look like the ladies on the bottom rung of the hierarchy ladder might actually be running the show.
posted by jesourie at 1:09 AM on September 22, 2016 [3 favorites]


Ability to have good working (trusting) relationships with conspiracy theorists.
A willingness to piss people off... And the ability to convince them it's for the best and make them love you for it.
posted by jrobin276 at 1:50 AM on September 22, 2016


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