Inspiring Success

Leading hiring and technology research companies, such as Robert Half and LinkedIn, share lists of emerging jobs in 2020; both predict a tight job market in IT and stress the importance of soft business skills to complement hard technical skills.

The best technologists not only admit their failures, they embrace failures as learning experiences, says Creating IT Futures CEO, Award-Winning Author and podcaster Charles Eaton.

How is working with artificial intelligence like training a dog? Answers to this question and other insights from our CEO, award-winning author and podcaster, Charles Eaton, about the ways technologists contribute not only to the business realm, but our society at large, with innate curiosity and a passion for solving problems.

What employers often call business “soft skills” or Emotional Intelligence are just as important as what they call technical “hard skills” when hiring for tech jobs. Here’s a quick primer on what they are, how they differ from hard skills and why employers consider them just as important as hard skills.

Is the popular online video game Fortnite training teens to think like technologists? Maybe, says Creating IT Futures CEO, award-winning author and podcaster Charles Eaton in this Podcast Flashback, but not likely without some encouragement from parents.

During this season of gratitude, Creating IT Futures wishes to thank some special TechGirlz partners that help make it possible to inspire middle-school girls to explore tech careers.