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The thing is: soft skills aren't that needed at the entry level. I've noticed that no one cares that I trained a lot of soft skills by doing a psych bachelor, a
by mettamage 3y ago
The thing is: soft skills aren't that needed at the entry level. I've noticed that no one cares that I trained a lot of soft skills by doing a psych bachelor, an honors program based on soft skills, hundreds of hours of meditation.
They just want to know:
- Can you code according to the requirements of the business?
Sometimes soft skills are needed for that, but not nearly to the level that I trained them at. So, the skills languish. I might get picked up to become a manager at some point and they might be relevant again, I'll retrain them. For now though, I've noticed my soft skills aren't that relevant. My ability to code and push features out as fast as possible (with good code quality) is.
- BeetleB 3y ago> I've noticed that no one cares that I trained a lot of soft skills by doing a psych bachelor, I don't know about your school, but at my undergrad they didn't teach soft skills for a psychology degree.
- tnel77 3y agoI feel like soft skills are critical for things like networking or standing out during the interview process. They aren’t as important in my day-to-day work, but they have helped land me interviews (especially as a student at career fairs many years ago).