Valuable IT skills
In college we have a new module, semester long group project. 4 people in a group. It is supposed to be a simulation of a real world project in a company. In a group project the hardest part is usually not the work itself, but working as a team. Cooperating, communicating… such skills are just crucial to get things done. It changes the atmosphere and morale of a team. This kind of soft skills not only increase productivity, but they allow hard skills to take place.
Soft skills are being in the top 10 of needed skills in it job listings by It jobs watch. Social skills are in tendency to rise up as seen in the graph. Specialised jobs are gaining trend, Continuous Improvement has even more straight rise up. This is the world of IT as see it. New tools all the time, new things to rely on, standards. It’s all shaping around the demands. Some of those hard skills that I have now might not be valuable after few years. It’s said that a skill is learned if you can explain it to a child. One thing is to do things, what we see these days is the reshaping thing we need to understand it deeply. If I mix up the AI here, one very prompt that is greatly explained will do the job exactly perfect. Software development is moving from coding to designing, engineering and architecting the apps. AI can be a threat if we don’t get what it’s doing. If the machine is doing something we don’t know, that would be the only way it surpasses us. To be able to overlook the AI I have to know the real principles.
What AI these days lack is those Social skills that are top 1 in all IT job offers. Communication skills as such. Knowing people, building the network. The network is basically personal networth. To network, meeting new people in the same field of work and therefore having more contacts is just as have any other skill.
One thing I want to improve these is skills, by using them, is to go to meetups and events about my field of experience. On meetup.com I found two relatable ones that I am going to, IoT in Belfast and Apache Kafka in Dublin (hosted by Autodesk).