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5 Soft Skills That Every IT Professional Needs   

 
Soft skills are becoming an increasing part of the IT job. Master these 5 skills to secure a job in IT.   
Sunday, May 31, 2015:  Soft skills has become a very important part of IT profession. Developers, project managers need to communicate with clients, partners and management committees. In such cases, soft skills tend to play a very important role. Soft skills gives a sense of confidence to IT professionals. Today, we have listed top 5 soft skills that every professional must master.

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1. Communication Skills

Communication skills is the most important part of soft skills. Consumerisation of technology has changed the demand of customers. The nature of job for IT professional has changed drastically over these years.Thus, in order to cater internal and external customer needs, IT professionals have to master the communication skills. This involves an excellent command on English, body language and speaking skills.

2. Prioritization

Things are getting complex in IT every day. IT professionals are handling multiple projects at a time. However, handling distractions is a big problem for all IT pros. They have to handle client communication, reporting, documentation along with actual development work. Management of this becomes very challenging at times. Prioritisation is the only key to handle multiple things at a time in IT. If management can handle priorities, the structure of IT company can be much more organised.


3. Patience

With multiple projects in hand and unachievable deadlines, patience is something very hard for any IT pro to regulate. IT pros often get frustrated with the end-users. Patience is hard to measure. For any IT pro, navigating the competing needs of the business is one of the top issue these days.

4. Flexibility

IT pros need to be very flexible while working with different technologies at the time. Given the complexity of work, IT pro has to decide what technologies are right for the requirement and what are hard to implement. IT pros have to be very creative all the time. When multinational company passes the work during time zone, the partnering company has to be available at the same time to serve them.

5. Initiative

Most people are afraid of taking an initiative. In today’s IT world, taking initiative is confused with creativity. It is only after you take an initiative that you can learn from the process and use your creativity to add value to the project.

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