Soft Skill Tips to Level Up Your Game
Talent Advocate at Gun.io
I am passionate about helping job-seekers in tech find work faster, and helping engineering leaders hire and scale teams more efficiently, all through the power of content
I caught up with the Head of Engineering for our software consulting arm at Vaco called Vaco Built. Here are some tips/tricks to level up your soft skills game during an interview or in the workplace!
Soft Skill Tips to Level Up Your Game
Find a way to know the people you work with - living in a virtual world its IMPERATIVE to get to know your colleagues
Be comfortable talking as a real person over a video call - be your whole self at work and if your work doesn’t accept that…move on
Be open about who you are and your interests - the only way you can build relationships is sharing your passions with others
Have a conversation as if you were already an employee as you are interviewing
You are a person not a machine so stop acting like it in the interview process
Create a visual deliverable when talking through your accomplishments - which will help your interviewing changes
Prewrite notes, a cover letter if you will, ahead of your interview
Keep the conversation going - THIS IS HUGE. never said ‘I don’t know’ and stop talking
Bring a notebook so you can write questions down to avoid interruptions
