How Do Measure Yourself? Being Good At What You Do?

[rocktronAMP]

"It is the hard skills that get you a gig, the soft ones that get you extensions in my experience. I am good at what i do, but not phenomenal, I have been at numerous gigs where i have been offered extensions over better developers because i bring more to the office than being a code monkey. "

I like this advice a lot.

I just went for a contract interview yesterday. Don't ask. They really were after big volume, multiple threading, transactions, messaging and queuing. I did not get it the contract. The interviewer was after the "hard skills" as you mention even the advertised role was a Java software engineer with the matching skillset. Sometimes I find that the job specification and the description is not exactly matching what the interviewer is asking for, although I do my best to filter out unsuitable roles from a recruitment consultant, it is always embarassing to be in these situations.


So just what are the extra bits and pieces after the hard skills? How do measure these soft and hard skills?

If you are talking about getting off my bum and talking to the other staff members? Been there, done there. I found it still was not enough. What other impressions are they the client looking for in your experiences?

[northernladuk]

Was one thread on this topic not enough? Sounds more like you need a therapist forum not a contracting one IMO.... Mumsnet is a good one I believe....

[cojak]

Lock that this is a duplicate thread and it will get confusing.