Explain why adaptability and interpersonal skills are important to an IT professional.

First of all adaptability means flexibility or adaptableness; in other words to be flexible and to adapt the things that are happening with you in your life in general and in your job especially.

Now we come to our specific question, why adaptability is important in IT professional? Just in simple words we need to be adaptable and flexible because of many reasons, first because the Information Technology itself; as we know that every day the technology is improving and so if we cannot adapt the new technology and go with it fast we won’t be professional and we will be at the end always. Another reason that we have to be flexible is one from the primary requirements in many organizations even it is more important sometimes from the job skills itself because the employ will not give their best if they could not adapt to the new environment of the work. According to the some references “Among the skills that employers are looking for in a potential employee, adaptability is ranked the highest along with communication, interpersonal skills and a strong work ethic. Every company looks for a candidate who fits within the existing work environment and is able to anticipate, respond to and manage change on a day-to-day basis.”

Moreover, in my opinion we need to be ready to uncertainty things that are happening, or for example I believe that sometimes we need to change the work or the company for better choice so we need to adapt the new environment.

Now if we come to another part of the question which is why interpersonal/social skills are important to an IT professional?

Also as we can see here that interpersonal is one from the primary requirements for the job these days. “Among the skills that employers are looking for in a potential employee, adaptability is ranked the highest along with communication, interpersonal skills and a strong work ethic. Every company looks for a candidate who fits within the existing work environment and is able to anticipate, respond to and manage change on a day-to-day basis.” In other words, we can say that inter personal skills are the social skills; the skills that the employ has to deal with the society and other workers and teammates, so just if we think about it simply. How can an employ will success and bring success to a company if he/she does not know how to deal with the people and with his teammates. and as we know as it is written in our Holy Quran to our prophet Mohammad peace be upon him, the meaning of it  “if you are not kind and don’t know how to treat well with people, the people will run away from you”. 

As a conclusion adaptability and interpersonal skills are very important to all employs, in our life and especially to IT professional 

Here are some references:

http://ohiocareers.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/adaptability/.