Hard and Soft skills:be successful in the IT market

Davide Benvegnù@davidebenvegnu

Who am IDAVIDE BENVEGNU’ Managing Director & CTO – DBTek Ltd Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio ALM

Member of DotNetToscana e GetLatestVersion communities Next: Founder of DotNetHongKong? Microsoft User Group (MUG)?

Developer, Consultant, Speaker, Trainer… GitHub (n3wt0n) – NuGet (DBTek) – SlideShare (n3wt0n)

@davidebenvegnu – www.davidebenvegnu.com – blog-eng.dbtek.it

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My story – 12+ years of experience in IT 1° job (not yet graduated): Computer science teacher for a private school

System Administrator in the biggest regional IT company

Analyst & Developer in a small Software House Head of Development (became shareholder) Technical Lead

Team Leader in the biggest Italian Service Provider International Development Manager (3 teams across Europe)

Started my company in Italy – DBTek.it

Started my company in Hong Kong – DBTek Ltd Director and CTO

Hard vs SoftHARD SKILLS

• Teachable abilities, can be learned in school and from books

• Easy for an employer or recruiter to recognize

• They remain the same, no matter for the situation and environment

SOFT SKILLS

• Subjective skills • Interpersonal skills• They change and depend on the

situation and environment • You can read about them, but the

only school is the life

Hard vs Soft: examplesHARD SKILLS

• Proficiency in a foreign language• Computer programming• Typing speed• Electronic devices building

SOFT SKILLS

• Teamwork• Communication• Time Management• Public Speaking

Hard skills: what to achieveTECHNICAL SKILLS Quantity vs Quality

Broad adoption vs Market niche

Market requests HK market: full stack developer EU market: FE or BE developer

Hard skills: what to achieveOTHER SKILLS Foreign languages

English at least The more, the best

Soft skills: what to achieve Teamwork

Good Teamwork skills lead you to be a good Team Leader

Good communication Public speaking helps

Open-mindedness

Humbleness I’m the best developer in the world, no one can do what I do

Perseverance

Other Be active in communities, user groups and meetups

Share your knowledge Learn from others’ know how Meet people from different places, with different stories and different background

Be always proactive, don’t be passive

Q & AAsk and I will answer…

…maybe

THANK YOUHard and Soft skills: be successful in the IT market

Davide Benvegnù@davidebenvegnu