What does it mean to be a professional?

The Soft Skills Problem

One of the reasons why it is hard make the transition into professional work is that it is hard to characterize what it means to be a professional. What soft skills do professional hardware engineers have that makes them good at their work?   The general consensus has been that only way to learn the answer to this questions was through experience in a job. Even though this is true that you will learn this way it will only be after many false starts and mistakes, frustration and stress. But I do not agree with this consensus and I created The Engineer Accelerator to do better. In the program enumerates the set of skills that I have seen are required to do effective project work.

Professionalism Post Series

To begin enumerating what these skills are, I am starting a new series of posts that aim to answer this question “What does it mean to be a professional?”.  We will look at skills in time management, team dynamics, documentation and more. So bookmark this blog and keep up with whole series 🙂

Program

In the Professionalism Series Engineer Accelerator Program you will learn these skills. It  give you techniques to apply to your work from day 1.  These skills help you land a job and they will enable you to get up to speed in your work quickly.