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Wait, copilot and ChatGPT use are skills? Isn’t that a bit like how using a phone is a skill?
More like googling skills. Definitely got some of my first jobs by telling my interviewer that I google shit I don't know
You might be surprised at how many people don't really know how to use Google/a search engine effectively.
Things like "what should I search for to find X" is a sentence I hear from both friends and colleagues quite often.
Or people that type http://www.Google.com into the address bar?
I had a coworker in the early 00s that would repeatedly fail to search for something because she would type "www.goggles.com" into the address bar.
Am I missing something? Lol
It's just unnecessary extra inefficient steps, usually by people not particularly tech proficient. Not a moral judgement, just an observation!
Most browsers I run into, you can search from the address bar. You can also disable or point to a different search engine, if you want. So you could skip going to the site. That aside...most browsers would accept google.com and not need the full https://www
I say most anecdotally as I haven't tested them all.
Where was this?
Random software company downtown toronto in 2012
RSC ™ was great!
What you didn't put googling as one of your skills in linked in?
"Digital librarian"
"Search prompt engineer"
Well we are talking about execs, they tend to not know what the fuck they're talking about
It's about at the same level as "Microsoft Office" as a skill. They're probably working on embedding ChatGPT and DALL-E in that suite. I've actually asked ChatGPT for some tips on using advanced features that I didn't know about and it worked nicely.