Soft Skills

Mar

2018

EE Softskills Series (IV) Hard Skills VS. Soft Skills

Mastery of soft skills has been considered one of the most important aspects for career development and job hunting success. To improve students’ soft skills, EE Department invited Mr. Jim Costello of HSBC to share with students what skills really mean to professionals in large international corporates in his talk titled, “Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills” held on 14 March 2018.

Mar

2018

EE Soft Skills Series - (III) Further Your Career By Studying Postgraduate Degree Abroad

The third soft skills workshop, delivered by Prof Tommy Chow, focused on advising students on pursuing postgraduate degree abroad.

A final year student, getting 3 offers from Columbia University, University of California San Diego, and University of California Irvine, partnered with Prof Chow on the day to share the opportunities for postgraduate studies in overseas countries; tips on how to best present the application; and important things to note in preparing applications.

Feb

2018

EE Soft Skills Series (II) Interpersonal Skills in Semi-formal Occasions

The second soft skills workshop organized for EE students was titled “Interpersonal Skills in Semi-formal Occasions”. Prof Tommy Chow shared his life experience and personal stories with students at EE Innovation Centre on 9th February 2018 afternoon.

Nowadays in an interconnected world people of different national and cultural backgrounds come across others in both professional and casual situations, some people skills, which seem trivial, such as how you project your voice, when you should crack a joke to break the ice, or what words you use in your conversations, would however have a huge impact on how others perceive you. Prof Chow reiterated in the workshop that we must always respect others and know how to show our respect in a way that others feel comfortable with us.

Oct

2017

Kicked off EE Soft Skills Series 2017/18

Prof Stella Pang and Prof Tommy Chow kicked off the EE Soft Skills Series 2017/18 with a one-hour workshop about basic email writing techniques in EE Innovation Centre on 25 October 2017.

“Nowadays soft skills of engineers is considered much more important than ever, which is a feedback we receive constantly from the industry,” Prof Pang explained the purpose of launching this series.