Soft Skills are Hard to Learn, But Essential to Your Success
August 12, 2015 | Author: Devin Rose, Senior Software Engineer
I’m presenting at the MeasureUP conference this September on the topic of soft skills!
Soft What?
You’re a programmer. You code. You drink coffee. You code some more. You’re a hard-core coder.
What do you need soft skills for anyhow?
Quite frankly, it means the difference between making much less than the market rate for your skills instead of what you deserve. In one friend’s case, it was the difference between $70,000 per year and $120,000 per year.
That’s right, a friend of mine almost doubled his salary in one year’s time, simply by realizing that he was not being valued at his current company.
Soft Skills Means More
But soft skills also include how to find a great company to work for, how to interview well, how to get promoted when you deserve to, and how to work on good projects and avoid getting stuck on dead ones.
Soft skills help you relate with coworkers. They help you get to know yourself as well: what are naturally good at? bad at? interested or not interested in?
In my case, after thirteen years sleep walking through my career, I woke up and began actively engaging with it. After my job and salary stagnated for four years, in the past year I’ve learned relevanttechnologies and skills, gotten to work at a startup and then at a small consulting company, all while receiving a 16% raise.
It’s a no brainer, really. Come to my talk and to the whole MeasureUP conference in Austin in September. Cost is something ridiculously low like $10. Learn soft skills and much, much more. See you there!
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