Younot onlyget the benefit of someone else'stechnical skillsinwritingtheseprograms, but you also get the benefitofdatastores farbeyondyour or your company'sability tosupport.
Writingskills, general management experience, technical and computer skills, people smarts, and international experience or language skills are examples of skills with what we call high option value -- that is, they are transferable to a wide range of possible options.
These are life skills, not just academic skills, and it is the quality of writing and thinking that separates employees with identical technical skill sets.