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Improve Your “Soft-Skills” and Keep Your Job! By Paul D.

Improve Your “Soft-Skills” and Keep Your Job!

Sheriff In challenging economic times, you need to “Be All You Can Be.” I am not just talking about being the best at coding in your company. I assume because you are reading this magazine that you are a programmer and that you are probably very good at your job. To ensure that you are not the one that gets the pink slip on your desk, you really should think about what else you can do to make yourself more valuable to your company.

As programmers, we love to code. I have too often seen programmers spend 100 hours on getting a 10% increase in speed on a routine that is only called twice in their application. Understand How Software Helps Your Business Yes, I know you coded the software, but do you really understand how it helps the end user get their job done? When you take the time to work in the actual business you get a better appreciation for what the users do day in and day out. Get Involved with Requirements Gathering Ask questions and get the answers. Oral Communication. 10 highly valued soft skills for IT pros. Today's IT pro needs both technical expertise and soft skills -- that's nothing new.

10 highly valued soft skills for IT pros

But the scope of those in-demand soft skills just keeps growing. Editor's note: This article originally published in July 2012. 10 soft skills needed by IT managers. October 07, 2013, 1:46 PM — I was just promoted from a Java programming job to Manager of Software Development.

10 soft skills needed by IT managers

As a manager, what else do I need to know in addition to my technical skills? As an IT manager, it’s your ability to communicate, work with others, solve conflicts, negotiate on behalf of yourself, your team and your company, and other soft skills based abilities that will ultimately drive your success or failure in the IT management ranks.

In fact, the higher your organizational level, the less important your technical skills become. That said, there are a number of soft skills that would be well worth your while to master, include the following: Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering. Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering Posted May 1, 2014 by Lorin Hochstein in controlled experiments Daniel Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang and Pekka Abrahamsson: "Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering" PeerJ 2(289), Mar. 2014.

Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering

For more than thirty years, it has been claimed that a way to improve software developers' productivity and software quality is to focus on people and to provide incentives to make developers satisfied and happy. Want to work for Google? Answer these five questions. Sometimes it looks as if the true mission at Google is not to help us find things, or even to make money, but to create a master-race of employees.

Want to work for Google? Answer these five questions

At the Googleplex, if you can demonstrate the right kind of sparky coolness and get hired, the perks are legendary. There are free meals, free haircuts, free bikes, free cars and even free beer and wine on Fridays. (Which sounds suspiciously like a breeding programme.) Currently, and as usual, Google is considered the best company in the US to work for by Fortune magazine. How to Teach Job Interview Skills: An ESL/EFL Lesson Plan. It is incredibly unfair to university students to allow them to graduate without helping them prepare for a job interview.

How to Teach Job Interview Skills: An ESL/EFL Lesson Plan

According to a recent article in the Korea Herald, English skill is still an important requirement for job seekers, a survey done by the Korean job portal Saramin found that: 58% of personnel managers for private companies gave an advantage to foreign language speakers.17% said language ability was a compulsory requirement.25% said language skill is used as a reference.95% stated that English was the most desirable language. When the personnel managers were asked how they evaluated foreign language skills, it was either by giving a presentation or interview in English. The last third of a university presentation skills or speaking course is enough time to prepare students for the test that they cannot afford to fail.

Seniors will naturally appreciate the training since they will be interviewing in the near future but underclassmen can also benefit. Interview Tips. News. Top 100 Software Testing Interview Questions. 3.

Top 100 Software Testing Interview Questions

A wholesaler sells printer cartridges. The minimum order quantity is 5. There is a 20% discount for orders of 100 or more printer cartridges. You have been asked to prepare test cases using various values for the number of printer cartridges ordered. Which of the following groups contain three test inputs that would be generated using Boundary Value Analysis? 4. Preventative tests are designed early; reactive tests are designed after the software has been produced. 5. To define when a test level is complete. 6.

The likelihood of an adverse event and the impact of the event 7. Decision table testing is used for testing systems for which the specification takes the form of rules or cause-effect combinations. Learn More About Decision Table Testing Technique in the Video Tutorial here 8. Interview Questions & Recruitment Resources.