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Education
Importance of emotional intelligence
Excerpts from article by Niraalee Shah, published in The Hindu
Emotional Intelligence is a skill that may not be inherent but can be developed with training and practice.
It is a heightened awareness of one’s own and others’ emotions and helps build solid seamless relationships, achieve career and personal goals, connect with feelings, turn intention into action, and make informed decisions about what matters most.
Emotional Intelligence is commonly defined by these factors:
1. Self-management
Emotions are important pieces of information that tell you about yourself and others. But in the face of stress, we can lose control of ourselves. With the ability to manage stress and stay emotionally present, you can make choices that allow you to control impulsive feelings and behaviours, thus managing your emotions in healthy ways.
2. Self-awareness
It’s important to learn how to balance your social performance with emotional integrity and discover how you can communicate with more openness and transparency. We need to learn how to read body language and tone of voice to become better communicators and truly active listeners. Recognise your own emotions and how they affect your thoughts and behaviour. Being able to connect to your emotions is the key to understanding how they influence your thoughts and actions.
3. Social awareness
This means understanding the emotions, needs, and concerns of others, picking up on emotional cues and feeling comfortable socially. We need to explore how negative and positive emotions impact the brain’s performance.
4. Empathy
This includes understanding other people’s emotional make up and considering others’ feelings, especially when making decisions. Empathy includes sensitivity to cross-cultural differences.
5. Relationship management
Understand why you need to explain your decisions before making them and what causes conflict. Learn how criticism and stonewalling destroy relationships and how to deliver feedback that inspires and connects rather than disconnect you from others.
Knowing yourself and others is a key element of emotional intelligence. It gives you the perspective and skills you need to get the most out of others and create a collaborative team that is inspired by each individual’s unique contribution to the whole.
Career
Build a resume and career in Data Science
Excerpts from article by Apoorva Komarraju, published in AnalyticInsight.net
Data science is a skill that is in high demand in the tech world. Making a transition to a data science career or getting a data science job as a fresher is a challenging process as everyone wants to get a data science certification and ensure their career success.
The Right Resume will attract the Right Connections
According to experts, public display of data science certifications on social media doesn’t attract quality people. People prioritise spending time on social media, beautifying their display rather than researching on datasets and gaining more knowledge of this dynamic field. Highlight how a certain course helped you build the knowledge foundation of machine learning skills or how some books have made you better at writing codes and programs.
Spending time knowing about the various facets of the field to grow intellectually and doing things to support your data science career growth will make your resume stronger.
Hard work pays off
Analyse your skills and understand how you can make yourself useful in this field. If you are good at statistics, make it clear how it can be of help to solve business problems. Data scientists have one goal and that is to solve business problems. It’s not about how technically difficult the challenge is or the tools that you’re using. It’s about whether you were able to solve business problems.
Speaking about quality resources that you bring to the organisation will increase your hiring chances.
Communication is key
A data scientist’s job is just not about numbers, it also requires the person to communicate those insights in a way to guide the team towards solving business problems. Recruiters look for people who not only have the technical skills but also have the communicative skills to understand the big picture. One way you can demonstrate this skill in your interview is by highlighting the projects you’ve finished via teamwork and framing your achievements through business metrics.
Achievements matter
If you want to take your resume from good to great, make sure you list measurable achievements. For a great data science resume, mention if you have worked with unstructured data or data that required you to make spreadsheets and data tables yourself. This experience is impressive because it shows you are capable of working with messy data and not just working with already-made data sets.
(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the article mentioned above are those of the author(s). They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of ICS Career GPS or its staff.)
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