[Proposal]: Presentation about The Essential Soft Skills in Tech

[jeroenheijmans]

Talk title

The Essential Soft Skills in Tech

The Abstract

Recently I've presented at the DomCode x OdeToCode cross-over meetup in Utrecht, a presentation titled "The Essential Soft Skills in Tech". The abstract is as follows:

Honing secondary skills is the second-best way to become better at your primary job — and quite possibly the most effective one! I will argue that focusing on certain non-tech skills is often the best thing you could possibly do to become better at your tech job.

In this presentation we will go through the essential soft skills for folks in tech. We'll discuss why they are that important, what you can do to improve at them, and how they will effectively improve your primary skills!

My colleague recommended I also submit it for Nimma.codes, and I would in fact be quite happy to further spread the word!

Presentation can be given either in English or in Dutch, whichever fits best.

The duration of your talk

Roughly 45 minutes is ideal - but can be adapted to be between 25 and 60 minutes

Tell us more about yourself as a speaker

I've been a speaker in varying frequency, depending on the context:

• Somewhat regularly at meetups (about ~12 times in past 10 years) of sizes between 10 and 80 attendees (recordings for a couple of them);
• Very regularly internally at the companies I worked at (and their clients), audiences between 10 and 65 attendees;
• Incidentally in the past (about ~3 times) at events with 100+ attendees;

I'm around at community events quite often as well, mostly in Utrecht and Amsterdam area, and a handful of times at Nimma.codes.

PS. For me submitting a talk with a public GitHub issue was no problem or obstacle, but if you'd want to welcome beginning speakers too it might be good to add a channel that's less public. I reckon the public "issue" version can be quite daunting and might also disproportionally affect underpriviliged folks.

format

Regular talk