Soft Skills for IT Professionals
In today’s life we all know soft skills are very important for IT Professionals. Lot of detailed stuff is available over the internet but here sharing with you the brief key points. Soft skills are often described by using terms often associated with personality traits, such as:
- Social Graces
- Language
- Personal Habits
- Optimism
- Responsibility
- A Sense of Humor
A person’s soft skill is an important part of their individual contribution to the success of an organization.
Key Soft Skills IT Professionals
Email Writing: Email writing is very important skills because it will convey your professional image to company and company‘s client.
Communication: Communication is all about making a connection with other (i.e. colleagues, clients etc.). Be an active and good listener first and then convey your message confidently and politely because it’s often said that every good conversation starts with good listening.
Presentation: The ability to present expressively to clients, colleagues and others can significantly enhance your credibility and professional status.
Planning: Good planning skills are essential in order to manage tasks on different projects with different deadlines. Effective planning makes it possible to anticipate problems and challenges to complete the tasks on time in order to meet the deadlines.
Time Management: Time management is the act or process or techniques that help us to manage our time effectively, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.
Soft Skills complement Technical Skills or hard skills. It’s often said that hard skills will get you an interview but you need soft skills to get the job. At last I would like to say that soft skills drive performance and performance drives success 🙂
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