Our ability to reason is at the heart of most of the jobs we do over our professional career.In a company like ours, mainly made of IT developers, we\u2019re constantly searching for profiles with passion for their work, technical knowledge, but most of all the ability of thinking outside the box and solve problems<\/em><\/strong>. Many summarize these skills with the words problem solvingon their CV.<\/p>\n Quite often among our professional characteristics we write qualities like lateral thinking<\/em>, team building<\/em> or problem solving. When you\u2019ll need to fix a bug, develop an algorithm or a new functionality, you\u2019ll have to demonstrate that you really have those abilities.<\/p>\n Thinking emerges even in the easiest problems or in the answers to banal questions. In all of those situations where what really matters is not the solution but the way you get there. In these moments you can see if a person is able to think fast and efficiently.<\/p>\n How many cats are there in Rome? Try to answer and then keep reading the article.<\/em> How many cats do you have? How big is your family? How many of your friends have a cat? What\u2019s the ratio between your friends\u2019 cats and the amount of friends you have? How many apartments does your building have? How many people live in an apartment on average? How many of these families have a cat?<\/p>\n Comparing these numbers to the number of people who live in Rome you\u2019ll get to a plausible answer. And this is not the only way to solve this kind of questions.<\/p>\n If you prove you can find efficient andprecise answers, search for alternative roads to solve problems and you don\u2019t give up, then you\u2019ll be considered interesting people.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll be able to face boolean variables, metadata, algorithms and framework.<\/p>\n On the other hand, if you think you don\u2019t have these qualities, don\u2019t worry. Like any other skills, these too can be trained and improved.<\/p>\n What matters is being ready when the right time comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you put \u201cproblem solving\u201d among your skills on the CV? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["it","en"],"languages":{"it":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"yoast_head":"\n
\nUnless you work at the Census Bureau for cats in Rome, it\u2019s unlikely you know the right answer. Everyone of us, however, has the information we need to get to a realistic estimate.<\/p>\n