Technical advancement in any field of expertise is a plus points to a potential client or employer. To be able to be hired or acquire a project, a honed skills is a must. It is something that can be obtained through series of training or from a school you are enrolled to, but in most cases, it is well earned through given experiences especially in a long term, or from people you get to work to that shares the same exact interest on things you are working on. But we have all have these tendencies of forgetting basics, after all, educating oneself towards effective advancement starts from the very core basic, whatever you wanted to learn about.

Impressive developer with outstanding outputs you can name of, software engineers of this generation with series of skills that toped other developers, didn’t start on being professionals without learning fundamentals, in the end, we all need to go back to primary steps, in order to obtain excellence.

Like any other professionals, an interest on things we do is a plus factor and skills in order to advance, this is one skill that’s been being neglected when evaluating employee. What are we, if we do not have the heart and enthusiasm on the field of professions we are in? If we put passion towards what we do, everything follows, such as newly acquired skills, knowledge, job promotion and of course, good pay check.

Ability to adapt. The second important basic skill any developer needs. In the world of technology, everything is advancing and that we all need to learn how to cope up or compete. For example, addressing a particular issue on processed work and solutions are well delivered, might not be the same exact quick fix for the same problem five minutes after, then patience applies.

Another skill one must possess is camaraderie. The ability to communicate and build relationships with the people you are surrounded with. Your interpersonal skills. As they say, No man is an island, and there’s no way you build yourself and your skills without the help of any other individuals, the skills we all acquire in our respective professions is also something that we all have learned from other people, because one may know something that others don’t and that is where shared knowledge comes in, camaraderie and our interpersonal skills. No matter how expert you are and knowledgeable of something that you do, if you lack interpersonal, you will not grow.

Open minded. The ability to accept corrections, to allow failures to learn and acquire mastery, that is where advancement starts. The willingness to train oneself or to be trained, the discipline that comes with it without beating oneself in order to grow. This skill doesn’t really need you to be genius enough to learn something. A skill doesn’t happen overnight, it is honed in a long term.

Comprehension, curiosity and creativity. This is not a rocket science skill if you are passionate enough on things that you do. If you love what you do, there’s no other smarter way to comprehend a lesson that’s been acquired of being curious on things. Curiosity, is where you start learning something. As a developer, you become curious on how to address such issues on developing software. You fail and you learn all at the same time and you become creative. And being creative you will excel on making outstanding output. You will enhance and develop it as a skill and you’ll advance. We always have to set our mind on an idea that there’s no easy job unless we learn to work on it, embrace it and grow with it.