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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

By : Emília M. Ludovino
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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

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By: Emília M. Ludovino

Overview of this book

This book will help you discover your emotional quotient (EQ) through practices and techniques that are used by the most successful IT people in the world. It will make you familiar with the core skills of Emotional Intelligence, such as understanding the role that emotions play in life, especially in the workplace. You will learn to identify the factors that make your behavior consistent, not just to other employees, but to yourself. This includes recognizing, harnessing, predicting, fostering, valuing, soothing, increasing, decreasing, managing, shifting, influencing or turning around emotions and integrating accurate emotional information into decision-making, reasoning, problem solving, etc., because, emotions run business in a way that spreadsheets and logic cannot. When a deadline lurks, you’ll know the steps you need to take to keep calm and composed. You’ll find out how to meet the deadline, and not get bogged down by stress. We’ll explain these factors and techniques through real-life examples faced by IT employees and you’ll learn using the choices that they made. This book will give you a detailed analysis of the events and behavioral pattern of the employees during that time. This will help you improve your own EQ to the extent that you don’t just survive, but thrive in a competitive IT industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
9
Bibliography

Summary


In this chapter, we covered the best practices to attract the best IT fit to an open position, the best hiring practices for IT talent, and the rules to follow before and during an interview to have the best outcome. We also covered how to prepare for the interview and maintain a legal hire process, and how to master the behavioral and situational interview process to screen for emotional intelligence in all the candidates, especially in leadership roles, management, sales teams, and customer service.

You have learned that the best practices to attract the a good fit of a candidate to IT are: know what you need and make that clear to your candidate in the job description, use all the resources, speak IT to IT people, know your people, and understand the position's requirements.

You have learned that the best four practices to hire the best IT professional, with a lower turnover, are behavioral interviewing and situational interviewing, selection assessments, job tryouts, and background...