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As non-technological or academic advice.. maintain a healthy "study/life" balance. Keep enough time to socialize and make connections. Do fun things. Having go
by dj_mc_merlin 5y ago
As non-technological or academic advice.. maintain a healthy "study/life" balance. Keep enough time to socialize and make connections. Do fun things.
Having good social skills and some nerve can put you head & shoulders above other people in an interview. Once in a team, being able to communicate effectively makes projects much easier. Many times when engineers complain about lack of clarity, what they really mean is they were not able to communicate with the other person.
- KineticLensman 5y agoYes!. Having good soft skills is really important, notably being able to do a confident presentation. I was painfully nervous of such things while at Uni and usually managed to avoid them, but eventually had to bite the bullet in industry. Because I started work in a research group that evaluated new software / concepts for the rest of the company, it was literally my job to communicate technical findings to non-technical people. To my surprise, I found that I could in fact stand up in a room and present, and eventually I came to enjoy it. I realised that I would have got better in academia had I started this earlier, and used the relatively benign Uni environment as a practice arena, as it were.