Professional Skills for Successful Career

What is skill?

A Skill is the ability to do a task/job with some preset results often within a specific time, energy and resources.

Skill Types:

Skills can be of two type’s domain-general and domain-specific.

Like, some general skills are time management, teamwork/coordination, and leadership quality, motivation, etc., whereas domain-specific will include skills that are required only for performing a particular type of job.

Now first let’s recognize who is a professional?

A Professional is a person who owns some detailed knowledge in a particular domain often in addition to some focused academics for his career. Lawyers, Teachers and Engineers etc. are considered professionals.

Career competencies

Now, Professional Skills are actually the career competencies that often are not taught as a part of academics, as I said earlier. These are set of some common/public skills which almost every company wants in his employee. Or we can say that these are some particular set of quality and behavior needed in almost every discipline. Like below are some common Professional skills which are required in almost every field:

Communication

Decision making

Time Management

Leadership

Conflict Management

Adaptability

Self-Motivation

Problem Solving

Confidence

Suppose you are a MEP Engineer so what would be Professional skills that you would require to be a successful engineer:

1. AUTOCAD/REVIT: If you are relevant to designing of MEP you must know advance level AUTOCAD/Revit to excel in field.

2. Communication: As a MEP you would always be working with a team. Being part of a team means you need very strong communication skills. You need to be able to communicate well and interact with others efficiently.

3. Project Management: most of your work will be performed on software’s on your computers. So here you also need knowledge of how to Plan, Execute, monitor and control your project. In order to be a successful engineer you would always be needing to lead a team of MEP. If you don’t have management skills, you won’t be able to achieve much or would never be able to advance in your career

4. Patience-Consistency: Now after all the above Technical skills you need some bonus professional skills to be successful as a Professional. You will meet a lot of failures but you need to try again and again to get required output that would only be done if you have patience & Consistency

5. Observation/Analytical Approach:

This skill will help you to track variance analysis in terms of input output while going through any phase. It will develop instinct to get best situation assessment.

7. Problem Solving: This is a skill that is required in almost every industry and every profile. To be successful you need to be a great problem solver too. One small mistake can ruin the entire programmer and it needs an analytical mind to detect that error and correct it.

8. Troubleshooting: This goes along with problem-solving skills but is more along the lines of trying to root out mistakes by finding the problems they are causing.

9. Learning: Learning is a never ending process, same in Computer Engineering. As a computer Engineer, you need to invest a lot of your time learning new things like new hardware’s and software’s.

So there are basically two broader categories of skills:

PERSONAL SKILLS AND ATTITUDES

Initiative and willingness to take risks.

Flexibility

Creativity

Critical Analysis etc.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ATTITUDES

Professional ethics.

Professional Behavior.

Proactively Planning for Career etc.

With all these skills, you have greater chances of success. All the Best!

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