Hoops Lab: Learning on the Job

Take your league by the throat

I just started a new job, and I had to start off moving quickly because when I was hired I was told that I needed to be prepared for a conference that was coming up immediately. I had to get up to speed enough in seven days to represent the company at the conference. My required prep included, among other things, reading a couple of hundred journal articles in enough depth to modify our journal database. In addition, I needed to learn all of our products enough to speak intelligently on them to the hundreds of researchers that I might encounter at the conference.

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