{"id":572,"date":"2022-03-19T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2022-03-19T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:15:14","slug":"morgan-j-lopes-speaks-to-moat-academy-cohort-20-on-soft-skills-for-software-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/19\/morgan-j-lopes-speaks-to-moat-academy-cohort-20-on-soft-skills-for-software-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan J Lopes Speaks to Moat Academy Cohort 20 on Soft Skills for Software Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"m_3735780980996164874module\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p align=\"left\">Programming abilities alone are not enough to get hired and sustain a lasting career within tech; at times we often undervalue traits that set excellent <a  href=\"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/8-steps-to-self-study-while-at-moat-academy-boot-camp\/\" title=\"software\" alt=\"software\">software<\/a> engineers apart from the average. Even those who struggle with <a  href=\"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/31\/the-web-and-the-internet-any-difference\/\" title=\"coding concepts\" alt=\"coding concepts\">coding concepts<\/a> can differentiate themselves by leaning into the skills accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On Wednesday, March 2nd ; <span class=\"il\">Morgan<\/span> J Lopes ( the co-author of <em>Code School: Overcome Imposter Syndrome. Kick-Start Your Tech Career.<\/em> ) was with us via Zoom to take our Cohort 20 members on Soft Skills for Software Developers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"il\">Morgan<\/span> co-founded Polar Notion, a <a  href=\"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/projects-in-just-3-weeks-at-the-boot-camp\/\" title=\"software agency\" alt=\"software agency\">software agency<\/a> in Atlanta, and served as CEO for ten years. He currently serves at the CTO for New Story Charity (YC 15), named Fast Company's World Most Innovative Company four consecutive years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">The session was very impactful and our participants were inspired and energized. He broadly divided the soft skills into four:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u2022 Transference<br \/>\n\u2022 Communication<br \/>\n\u2022 Time Management<br \/>\n\u2022 Professionalism<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"il\">Morgan<\/span> took a deep dive into these four to bring them home to our participants.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Watch the video recording here.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/axyFfuDqupg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programming abilities alone are not enough to get hired and sustain a lasting career within tech; at times we often undervalue traits that set excellent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}