Jennifer Dulski, CEO of Rising Team, emphasizes the importance of soft skills over technical skills for career advancement in big tech. Throughout her varied leadership roles, including director of product management at Google and head of groups at Facebook, adaptability, relationship building, and initiative have been crucial to her success. As a lecturer at Stanford, she highlights that these skills are critical for younger professionals to thrive in a rapidly changing industry where hard skills quickly become outdated.
I think it's more important to focus on soft skills. The hard skills you might need change so quickly that you can't make a list, but soft skills are the real needle-movers to a career.
Skills like adaptability, relationship-building, and taking initiative helped me in my early career and are essential for young professionals to grow their careers and become good leaders.
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