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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
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Bibliography

Assessing emotional intelligence traits in candidates


Looking for emotional intelligence traits in job candidates during the interview process is not difficult--especially if you have the right questions to ask. In this section, we will start with general questions that you can use with all candidates. Then we will cover specific questions to specific job positions, where emotional intelligence is of the utmost importance.

The most effective questions to spot emotional intelligence in a candidate are:

  • If you had the chance to have dinner with one of your role models or someone that inspires you, who would that be and why?
    • The answers give you a sneak peek into what are the candidate's passions and inspirations. And even the behavioral patterns the candidate respects.
  • Imagine you have the chance to start tomorrow your own company. What would be the three core values?
    • The candidate's answer gives you the insight into his core values and priorities.
  • As the team leader of your team, how would you...