Is virtual competency a marketable skill?

I think virtual competence is a skill in a virtual world. Or for a virtual business. But if the article says it’s good, you could put it on the resume. Me, I hate virtual skills. I wish I had real world skills. But then, something is better then nothing.

I’m finding that more and more jobs are done from at home, or with business partners and peers in other cities. You can even be on the same team, in the same company, and be in 5 different states. Learning and training is done through self-directed modules. There is less of an informational push towards customers, and more of a conversational exchange. Something has changed, and rather recently.

It certainly seems like it could be, but, how would you measure such a thing before you hire a new employee? I guess it’s similar to the old “good people skills”... anyone can claim it, but not everyone really has it.

It’s virtually marketable.

Virtual competency as opposed to actual competency?? Since you wouldn’t have to prove actual competence, anybody can be virtually competent. I am virtually young, virtually gorgeous, virtually talented and a virtual genius.

@galileogirl, no, that answer proves that you are an actual genius.