Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Liaison job

Liaison jobs are jobs that link two or more specialties. For example, systems analyst jobs work with customers and management to understand and document their automation needs and then transfer such information to computer programmers, who turn the collected information into working software. 

Thus the liaison worker coordinates customer and management needs into terms the technicians can relate to. Liaison workers usually need to understand both professions or sides to some degree. One could call them a go-between.

Free trade and the Internet have allegedly made such jobs more common, but perhaps at the expense of direct technology jobs due to offshore outsourcing. In other words, it may be that companies would rather have candidates with mediocre technical skills with advanced technical skills and mediocre social skills.

It is disputed whether technology-only workers can make an effective transition to liaison positions to replace off shored technical positions, or if companies prefer those with natural social and diplomatic abilities over converted technicians.

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