Take Care Of The Soft Skills In Business and Play To Your Strengths with Neil Thompson
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Neil Thompson
Neil Thompson is the founder of Teach The Geek, helping STEM professionals to communicate effectively by developing their public speaking skills. Prior to Teach The Geek, he was a biomedical engineer, a freelance writer and a product development engineer as well as a professional speaker. Neil talks about why we should always nurture and develop the soft skills that can make our IT careers far more compatible with those without engineering or technical backgrounds. He also discusses the importance of leveraging out the tasks you’re weaker at.
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Resources
TeachTheGeek.com – Click on the link to check out Neil’s website!
2 Top Career Tips
1) As professionals in IT, we often focus on technical skills, but ignore the soft skills required. Communication helps everyone to understand each other better, and makes the free-flow of information and ideas far more possible.
2) Play to your strengths whenever you can. It’s important to know what you’re good at, and leverage your weaker tasks to those who can do them well.
Show Notes
Worst Career Moment
An important project was cancelled because it was misunderstood. This demonstrated the value of effective communication to Neil.
Career Highlight
Obtaining the first job in the marketplace was a real highlight, and not as easy as Neil was led to believe. Experience, and not just qualifications, were needed.
The Future
The way in which IT is constantly evolving and innovating. Neil has witnessed, first hand, the ways in which IT has energized and radically revolutionized many sectors.
The Reveal
What first attracted you to a career in I.T.?
Neil went into IT because his father advised him to do so!
What is the best career advice you’ve ever received?
To play to your strengths and to surround yourself with your weaknesses.
What is the worst career advice you’ve ever received?
To try to be a jack of all trades and master of none.
If you had to begin your career again in today’s world, what would you do?
Neil would have developed relationships with hiring managers instead of blindly applying through automated systems.
What career objectives are you currently focusing on?
To grow Teach The Geeks so that other courses can be offered.
What’s the number one non-technical skill that has helped you in your career so far?
Communication – it’s vital to the proliferation of ideas and thoughts.
What do you do to keep your own career energized?
Constant learning and trying new things.
What do you do in your spare time away from technology?
Neil enjoys performing stand-up comedy!
Contact The Guest
Contact Neil Thompson through the following social media platforms:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/teachthegeek
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