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Soft Skills That Will Set You Apart in the Tech World

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

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Soft Skills That Will Set You Apart in the Tech World

Most people get into IT careers because they have a proclivity for coding and hard technical skills. However, soft skills like teamworking ability and communication are often more instrumental to succeeding in an IT career.

Soft skills are personal attributes that are considered a part of your personality. These abilities are difficult to improve through formal instruction, and they’re typically gained through experience. They’re crucial to both interpersonal relationships and career success.

Below are a few soft skills that can set you apart in the tech world and set you up for success.

Strong Communication

Despite how they are often portrayed, technology jobs are not solitary pursuits. Nearly every tech job calls for communication with other people, in both verbal and written forms. Those working in cybersecurity or software development typically work on a team, which involves regular communication ideas with teammates.

Simply put, you have to be capable of clearly expressing your thoughts to fix issues, fully leverage tech tools and succeed as a tech professional.

Organizational Ability

Many IT positions can be quite dynamic; usually involving jumping from project to project and task to task. The capability to keep an eye on things like your schedule and daily tasks is crucial to daily results. It’s also critical to efficiently group together and prioritize your daily duties.

Critical Thinking

Those working in tech are asked to develop efficient solutions to problems on a regular basis. Critical thinking skills help you analyze various issues and develop solutions to them. For instance, they can help you determine why a line of code isn’t working or why a company website is down.

If you have a good critical eye, you can also identify potential issues, valuable events and key outliers in data sets.

Creativity

Creativity may not be an explicit requirement in most tech job postings, but it’s a valuable skill in a lot of IT positions. If tech icons like Elon Musk hadn’t been extremely creative, they would not have developed revolutionary ideas and products.

Even though you may not want to be the next tech tycoon, you still have to think of ideas to streamline operations or refine products. Or, you have to identify innovative solutions to nagging tech issues. The truth is, one of the main demands in any IT job is the capacity to creatively use technology to meet a certain business need or generate a solution that helps the business move forward.

Project Management Skills

As a tech professional, you must hit deadlines and meet objectives. Solid project management skills include the capacity to make solid plans, set attainable goals, stay on track and work with co-workers to resolve problems.

Excellent project management abilities are critical if you would like to get into leadership positions.

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At SMCI, we specialize in helping tech professionals have long, successful careers. Please contact us today to find out how we can help you with your tech career.


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