This week, you investigated job openings that asked for Scrum skills and certifications. You also explored personality types. In your journal, discuss the following:
- Did you find any jobs that might interest you? Which ones?
- Were you surprised at how many positions utilize Scrum?
- Were there any openings in your current industry?
- Are you planning to earn a Professional Scrum Master certification at the end of this course?
- Were there any surprises in your personality type? Any surprises in those of your teammates?
Your journal entry must be between 600 to 900 words.
Did you find any jobs that might interest you? Which ones?
The Java Developer role is interesting to me, as I hope to develop code like this, and look forward to working together with a competent Scrum development team to make a robust, useful product. Some other roles that interest me are:
Were you surprised at how many positions utilize Scrum?
Not really! Scrum is a very efficient, versatile methodology, and has been gaining traction and popularity pretty quickly over the past few decades. I’m not surprised at all to find it listed in the requirements/requests for this many roles, and in fact, might expect to see it listed in even more roles if the search term “Agile” were used instead of “Scrum.” The requirements in most of these postings just ask for a familiarity with the practice of Scrum/Agile, which after this course, I’m pretty confident in saying that I meet that requirement. Now just to get all the other requirements under my belt... That’s the hard part!
Were there any openings in your current industry?
That depends on how you define my “current industry” - while I work for JPMorgan Chase, which is in the banking/finance industry, my current role is that of customer/client support, and does not involve any opportunity for development of any sort. Thus, roles in the customer support industry (if there can be said to be such a thing) would not typically require Scrum, but would certainly have lots of openings otherwise. Likewise, banking/finance roles do not typically require Scrum either. But thanks to the intersection of industries, and in-house development teams, JPMC does have several openings which require and utilize Scrum.
Are you planning to earn a Professional Scrum Master certification at the end of this course?
Probably not, since that’s something that would likely cost money in order to attempt. What I will probably do instead, is to take the skill certification tests available on LinkedIn and Indeed. For the amount of involvement I plan to have in my future career, that should be perfectly sufficient. Once I get some real-world application experience with Scrum, I may re-assess my interest in the Scrum Master role. If it winds up being something that interests me as a career, I may very well look into earning the professional Scrum Master certification later on in the future.
Were there any surprises in your personality type? Any surprises in those of your teammates?
My own personality type always tends to come as both a surprise and an expectation – as discussed in the relevant forum this week, the introversion aspect has remained constant throughout my entire life. But the other letters tend to fluctuate as I grow and develop my outlook and personality. To be honest, I’ve never placed much stock on the Meyers-Briggs test results. While it can sometimes provide some broad strokes of perspective about a person, more often than not it tends to reflect what a person wishes were true about themselves. I’ve heard it referred to as “Astrology for people who don’t believe in Astrology.” Dividing people into specific labels tends to dehumanize them and cause them to focus more on their differences, leading to an “othering” effect of us verses them: false dichotomies (or whatever the equivalent term for 16 categories would be) do more harm than good, in my opinion.
Peter and Damien weren’t terribly surprising either, and Saul doesn’t seem to have participated in this discussion at all. I’m not sure whether he’s still attending the class.
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