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What career related skill would you most like to improve?

We all know that selecting a career in electronics means accepting a requirement to continuously upgrade skills and capabilities.  This requirement is also imposed on anyone that commits to learning electronics as a hobby.  Electronics is ever evolving with developments occurring on multiple fronts - Internet of Things is one contemporary example.  To stay relevant in this field means learning new skills.

 

Over the 36 years of my career in electronics I have been involved in hiring many technologists, instructors, engineers, interns, and research staff.  I've also been involved in a few firings.  I have developed a sense of what I think are the most important skills to stay relevant, and remain employed, in electronics R&D positions. These skills fall into two broad categories: soft skills and hard skills.  I've listed a few of each below.  You may see one that you have been thinking about working on, or you may have others that should be added to the list.

 

Some of the choices are fairly broad, so please feel welcome to specify a particular skill via a comment.

Please select the skill you are most interested in improving, or add a missing skill via a comment.

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  • I voted for coding because I feel some need to get properly competent with something to write test programmes for PCs. Most of the stuff I've done since about 1998 was written in VB and I still revert to VB6 when I want something with some basic GUI and some instrument control in a hurry. (Typically talking to the real device outside the PC via Ethernet or serial.)

    I've tried Python and I don't like it at all  - and no (easy) graphics.

     

    I use MATLAB (with several toolboxes) for data analysis but I don't like to use it for testers or demo code because the license is expensive (no good for a bit of demo code to give to a customer.)

     

    I think I'm left with C# or possibly VB.net but neither is a patch on VB6 for occasional user productivity.

     

    Suggestions welcome - cross platform would be nice.

     

    I write 'code' for products in C or VHDL.

     

    MK

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  • I voted for coding because I feel some need to get properly competent with something to write test programmes for PCs. Most of the stuff I've done since about 1998 was written in VB and I still revert to VB6 when I want something with some basic GUI and some instrument control in a hurry. (Typically talking to the real device outside the PC via Ethernet or serial.)

    I've tried Python and I don't like it at all  - and no (easy) graphics.

     

    I use MATLAB (with several toolboxes) for data analysis but I don't like to use it for testers or demo code because the license is expensive (no good for a bit of demo code to give to a customer.)

     

    I think I'm left with C# or possibly VB.net but neither is a patch on VB6 for occasional user productivity.

     

    Suggestions welcome - cross platform would be nice.

     

    I write 'code' for products in C or VHDL.

     

    MK

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