Career Skills
Technical professionals have mastery of the technical skills required to advance in their fields. But what about the career skills — often referred to as soft skills — that give them a leg up when it comes to building sustainable and satisfying careers?
- Personal & Professional Branding
- Communication
- Leadership
- Management
- Product Management
- Giving/Receiving Feedback
- Networking
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Giving Managers Three Keys to Employee Retention
Is it time to push back against old, familiar procedures and instead invest in managers who are ready to invest in employees in return?
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Bucket List for the First Year of Your Career
Starting your career is an exciting chapter that provides many opportunities for growth. Here are eight bucket list items to help you get the most out of your first year.
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How to Make a Good Impression at Your Summer Internship
A summer internship is an important step towards getting your first full-time job, so use these tips to make a lasting impression.
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Four Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Summer Internship
Leverage your internship to gain experience, grow your network, and explore what a challenging and fulfilling career could look like.
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Three Leadership Tips from Sci Fi Author Brandon Sanderson
This sci-fi writer demonstrated that he is not just a cosmic genius in creating fantasy worlds, but also has mad leadership skills.
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How Proper Mentorship Can Make Teams Magically More Effective
Technical skills aren’t enough for a team's success; we also need mentors who can point out blind spots and expand our perspective.
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Should That Meeting Still be an Email?
Could having more “meetings that could have been an email” enhance company culture, employee collaboration, and operational efficiency?
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Five Tips So You Can Own Your Day
Bad things happen, even on a daily basis. Let's look at how we respond to outside stimuli, and how we can prevent it from ruining our day.
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How to Become a Technical Storyteller
Recently, I was trying to explain a challenge I was facing to a project team. While describing the challenge, I could see my audience getting more and more confused. In the end, we were unable to resolve the issue during the meeting, not because of the issue’s complexity, but because…
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Choose Radical Acceptance in the Workplace
What is radical acceptance, and how can we use it in the workplace to identify and address what can be changed and accept what cannot?
