"Years ago, simply having the qualifications may well have been the deciding factor in whether you landed a career as a coder. But, as the 21st Century rumbles forward, more and more tech companies are focusing less on hiring people for what they already know, and more on what they can learn and bring to the company as a whole."
Coder Factory Academy describes their advice to land the dream developer job that you have pictured for yourself. They identify that developers need to have a set of hard skills and soft skills, which means that they must be proficiently skilled in programming and have excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
The article essentially identifies that developers looking to land their dream job must work on the following soft skills to make themselves stand out from a crowd of comparable developers with equivalent hard skills or their technology strengths.
Some of the main soft skills that Code Factory Academy identify are:
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Be nice
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Good problem solving skills
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Team work
If you would like to read the rest of the the career tips then be sure to read the article at https://medium.com/@coderfactory/5-must-have-qualities-employers-look-for-in-junior-software-developers-9067135174ef#.zaz4qa9d3.
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