MicroNugget: How Will IT Soft Skills Improve Your Career

In this video, Chris Ward covers various IT soft skills that are geared toward improving your overall career prospects. Although certification is a well-known cornerstone of continued IT success, it’s only part of the journey. This MicroNugget focuses on improving your current position and preparing for future jobs.

Chris begins by discussing your career focus and how to align your actions with where you want to arrive. The foundation of continued success begins by defining what you want to achieve. He’ll help you develop this by covering several exercises you can perform to help narrow your broad interests into a targeted objective.

You’ll also hear about how employers view your character and what they want out of an ideal employee, which gives you a starting point on soft skills to develop.

He’ll move into the basic building blocks of a stable career, such as focusing on the fundamentals and keeping things simple.

Finally, he’ll talk about various things you should consider as you interact with your peers and superiors.

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