• IEEE.org
  • IEEE CS Standards
  • Career Center
  • About Us
  • Subscribe to Newsletter

0

IEEE-CS_LogoTM-orange
  • MEMBERSHIP
  • CONFERENCES
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • EDUCATION & CAREER
  • VOLUNTEER
  • ABOUT
  • Join Us
IEEE-CS_LogoTM-orange

0

IEEE Computer Society Logo
Sign up for our newsletter
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY
About UsBoard of GovernorsNewslettersPress RoomIEEE Support CenterContact Us
COMPUTING RESOURCES
Career CenterCourses & CertificationsWebinarsPodcastsTech NewsMembership
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Corporate PartnershipsConference Sponsorships & ExhibitsAdvertisingRecruitingDigital Library Institutional Subscriptions
DIGITAL LIBRARY
MagazinesJournalsConference ProceedingsVideo LibraryLibrarian Resources
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
GovernanceConference OrganizersAuthorsChaptersCommunities
POLICIES
PrivacyAccessibility StatementIEEE Nondiscrimination PolicyIEEE Ethics ReportingXML Sitemap

Copyright 2026 IEEE - All rights reserved. A public charity, IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

  • Home
  • /Publications
  • /Tech News
  • /Build Your Career
  • Home
  • / ...
  • /Tech News
  • /Build Your Career

Webinar: 5 soft skills every technical professional should develop

By IEEE Computer Society Team on
September 28, 2021

5 Soft Skills Every Technical Professional Should DevelopKathy Land is a former IEEE Computer Society President, with years of practical experience hiring and managing teams developing software and systems products. As a hiring manager, she quickly discovered an employee can be technically skilled, yet unable to communicate the most basic details to clients and fellow team members.


Want More Career-focused News? Subscribe to Build Your Career Newsletter Today!


It is critical that programmers have both hard skills (technical) and soft skills for the successful development and delivery of a product. In this webinar, Kathy Land provides actionable advice to computer science and engineering professionals, so that they may differentiate themselves and outperform a competitive pool of candidates when applying for a job.

Soft skills are in high demand. Learn from one of the Society’s leaders and her experience working in the software industry as a hiring manager.

Watch "The Fantastic Five, the 5 Soft Skills Every Technical Professional Should Develop."

LATEST NEWS
Autonomy Budgets: The Missing Control Surface for AI Agents
Autonomy Budgets: The Missing Control Surface for AI Agents
Operationalizing AI Governance: Moving Beyond Frameworks to Real-World Readiness
Operationalizing AI Governance: Moving Beyond Frameworks to Real-World Readiness
Seeking 2028 Editors in Chief
Seeking 2028 Editors in Chief
Audit-Verifiable Security as a First-Class Architecture Requirement
Audit-Verifiable Security as a First-Class Architecture Requirement
Beyond the Autocomplete: How IEEE Columbia Tackled Enterprise Agentic AI
Beyond the Autocomplete: How IEEE Columbia Tackled Enterprise Agentic AI
Read Next

Autonomy Budgets: The Missing Control Surface for AI Agents

Operationalizing AI Governance: Moving Beyond Frameworks to Real-World Readiness

Seeking 2028 Editors in Chief

Audit-Verifiable Security as a First-Class Architecture Requirement

Beyond the Autocomplete: How IEEE Columbia Tackled Enterprise Agentic AI

Beyond the Degree: How IEEE Trinidad & Tobago Marked Ada Lovelace Day 2026

IEEE CS and ACM Honor Daniel Reed with 2026 Ken Kennedy Award

Four Gates Every Enterprise AI Agent Should Pass Before It Acts

Get the latest news and technology trends for computing professionals with ComputingEdge
Sign up for our newsletter