The underlying question is: What is the basis people bring with them and are you - as an employer - able to work with them.
The notion of "generalist" or "specialist" is bias laden in one way or the other. And if you take the dimensions of our industry, we are all at some point "specialist": tied to only a subsection of our field.
What is missing in the figure: the area of requirements, which mostly overlaps the generalist as well as the specialist.
The gaps of knowledge are uninteresting. Interesting is: "Are they willing to fill the gaps"?
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The underlying question is: What is the basis people bring with them and are you - as an employer - able to work with them.
The notion of "generalist" or "specialist" is bias laden in one way or the other. And if you take the dimensions of our industry, we are all at some point "specialist": tied to only a subsection of our field.
What is missing in the figure: the area of requirements, which mostly overlaps the generalist as well as the specialist.
The gaps of knowledge are uninteresting. Interesting is: "Are they willing to fill the gaps"?