Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: How to Set Priorities?

About the event

At the meetup, speakers will share their experiences and discuss which is more important at the start of a career in IT: strong hard skills or well-developed soft skills. They will explain at what point soft skills start to play a key role in professional growth and what skills are critical for working in distributed teams. Participants will receive useful tips on how to effectively combine hard and soft skills for successful career development.

Agenda:

• Words of welcome;
• Artem Golovachev’s speech on soft skills;
• Vitali Birchanka’s speech on hard skills;
• Discussion: hard skills vs. soft skills (the speakers will discuss various cases where both hard and soft skills can be useful);
• Q&A session;
• Conclusion.

The event will be interesting for:

The meetup is aimed at specialists who are starting or planning a career in IT, as well as those transitioning into the industry from other fields. The event will be valuable for developers, testers, business analysts, DevOps engineers, and other IT professionals, as well as managers and team leads interested in the comprehensive development of their teams.

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