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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

By : Emília M. Ludovino
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Book Image

Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

5 (1)
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

Chapter 7. How to Hire Emotionally Intelligent IT Professionals

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • The best practices to attract the best IT professionals to an open position
  • The best hiring practices for IT talent
  • The rules to follow before and during an interview to have the best outcome
  • Preparing the interview and maintaining a legal hire process
  • Master the behavioral and situational interview process to screen for emotional intelligence in all the candidates and especially in leadership roles, management, sales teams, and customer service

Nowadays, tech companies, when searching for the best fit for their companies, are looking for IT professionals that have not only the best technical skills but also display emotional intelligence skills, as opposed to the school they went to or their grades. Why? Well, because it's proven that emotional intelligence makes the difference when being successful. A candidate with low emotional intelligence lacks the skills to understand and manage their own emotions...