Confidence
Being confident in the IT industry means you are not afraid to try new things or attempt solutions that someone who lacks confidence would be too cautious to try. For example, having your first attempt at fixing a component of a computer with enough confidence to not back away, and have the idea that you will be able to do it well.
Adapting to suit an audience
If you are addressing a certain audience like a large group or maybe even some children, the language you use and the way you speak will greatly affect how engaged they are. Adapting your tone of voice with a large crowd will mean they will be able to hear you better, and if you are speaking to a specific group, like children, the language you use should suit what the audience will understand and take in. This menas that with this example, children you use simple language. An example of this would be when talking to a customer, you should use the type of language you think they’ll understand, such as an old person, you would speak with little technical speech as they wouldn’t understand it. This is valued in the IT industry as if you are talking to somebody who is not knowledgeable with computers, you would use simple language and use barely any ICT related jargon which they wont understand.
Accuracy
This means that you are able and willing to not use just plain facts when speaking to anyone, if it’s a colleague or an audience. You should include both opinions and other types of speech to engage your audiences. You should also be able to bend the truth but no blatantly lie so whatever you are speaking about is more appealing. This skill can be used in the IT industry when making a presentation about your work, for example. Talking about your work with only facts may get boring so making your speech a bit more lively, you would add opinions. This will make your audience listen This is valued by an employer as it shows you are able to use your opinions to make decisions for you and potentially your colleagues.
What about Technical Knowledge? Surely this is important if you want to do your job properly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alex that technical knowledge is important for an IT job and so is spelling and grammar because IT employers would not be impressed if you kept spelling words wrong.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback guys!
ReplyDeleteI do think that technical knowledge is an important skill to bring into the IT workplace, as you said it will mean that they can do the job efficiently. This is defiantly something that I can swap with one of my original points. What would you suggest I get rid of? Also, I'm not sure that spelling and grammar is important enough to make it onto the top three, however I still think its important.
I think that Terminology is an important skill. This is because if everyone is able to use it then you and your colleagues would be able to be very specific and detailed when talking about ICT.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your thoughts on spelling and grammar Abel.
Spelling and Grammar should be in your top 3 personally as you won't want to submit work to a customer that has loads of mistakes in and it will also take a long time to correct the mistakes if you keep making them when completing a project
ReplyDeleteAfter consideration I do think that spelling and grammar is very important but am still not sure whether or not is should make it as one of the top three. I have created a new post so that we can discuss what you think, so if you have anything to say about spelling and grammar please coment in the post above. But if you want to suggest anything else, you can say here!
ReplyDeletei think Planning skills and Organisational skills this is valued by employers because planning skills and Organisational skills are the factors which enable an individual to set up course of action for themselves and theirs to achieve specific results. An example of this would be software developer, As he would need to be able plan how the software is to be developed and if he is working with a new programme how they could do it efficiently and quickly to save money and time. Organisational skills would be key in this process.
ReplyDeleteVerbal and written communication skills this are very important and therefore highly valued, Although most jobs do not require a high degree of mathematical skills, all jobs require some numeric skills. If you need to do calculations, you must be able to do them accurately. All employees are to have numeracy skills in the company. An example of person who would require numerical skills would be a programmer as they have to use maths and letters to write knew programs for the company communication skills with other employers would be very crucial so if working with team members issues can be easily solved
Creativity skills this is valued by IT employees because . Generating fresh solutions to problems, and the ability to create new products, processes or services for a changing market, are part of the intellectual capital that give a company its competitive edge. Creativity is needed in all lines of work . An example job that requires ICT would be 3D animation designer. As they are working with plain software they would need to be creative to create some very realistic three dimensional objects which would require a lot of creativity. Creativity is very important because . It shows you can take one piece of information and turn into something very interesting, which would require a lot creativity. And thus showing the employer. You good for the required job.