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• Get to Know ITMO’s Soft Skills Lecturers

  Meet our well-rounded Soft Skills gurus in the continuation of our Get to Know series! Here they share all about their favorite books, movies, and travel tips, as well as throw in their expert explanation of why soft skills are the key component of your success both as a professional and a human being.

  23.05.2019

• Siberian Coal Energy Company’s Advisor on Personnel: Even the Most Macho Miners Need Soft Skills

  Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) is one of the world’s largest coal companies and the leading coal, heat and electricity producer in Russia. Over the course of the past four years, ITMO University has been hosting professional development courses for the company’s staff. This year’s program is called “Innovation Management. Leadership and Corporate Governance”. ITMO.NEWS found out why miners have to study emotional intelligence, how to fix equipment in subzero temperatures, and why the world-class company chooses to cooperate with ITMO University. 

  30.10.2018

• Preparing You For the Working World: Summer School in Singapore

  To be successful, you need both professional competencies and soft skills, also known as interpersonal or social skills. Ranked as one of the world’s leading universities, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore launched the Preparing You For the Working World summer school for students from all over the globe. The event is aimed at teaching students valuable soft skills like teamwork, leadership and management skills, and other soft skills. ITMO University and the NTU are already collaborating on academic mobility programs, which gave this year's graduate student Anastasia Volkova, who is going to continue her professional career at ITMO, an opportunity to take part in the summer school. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, she shared her experience.

  01.08.2018

• Video Games vs. MBAs: How Gaming Makes You a Better Employee

  Are video games good or bad for you? Miroslava Valkevich, a journalist and former television host, delivered an open lecture at ITMO University. In her opinion, video games affect players positively because they help them to acquire many soft skills. She gave examples on how gamers can develop leadership and teamwork skills, while ITMO.NEWS reviewed the experts' opinions on the subject.

  03.04.2018

• Do Leadership Skills Depend on Education: Research By ITMO And Courseburg.ru

  ​Educational online platform Courseburg.ru and ITMO's Institute of Design & Urban Studies conducted a joint research and found out what education do St. Petersburg's top-managers have and how that affects their careers. Most senior managers get higher education so as to solve some particular problem or while they work. Also, short-term courses and personal development trainings are becoming more and more popular. ITMO.NEWS decided to study it deeper and learn which skills apart from common professional competencies help one move up the corporate ladder.

  04.07.2017

• ITalented: the New Course for IT Students

  To write a great resume, get a job at one's dream company and, upon becoming a team lead, complete a project every two weeks — most graduates spend years on achieving that, and many fail in process. Is there any way to change that? Surely, — believe authors of the ITalented course organized by ITMO's Personal Development Center that will start on April, 7th. During its two months, representatives of St. Petersburg's leading companies will explain how to present oneself in a new company and complete projects using "soft skills". Maksim Ivanov, one of the course's organizers, shared on what else the students will learn during the course's seven sessions.

  14.03.2017