Why soft skills are more important when it comes to hiring: Zoe Rooney

If you want to get hired as a front-end developer, it’s not always about your technical skill.

In fact, Philadelphia designer Zoe Rooney argues that it’s soft skills — communication, tenacity, curiosity — that matter more. She’s willing to teach the technical skills, she wrote in a blog post.

Said Rooney, who runs a web dev firm:

The soft skills are the ones that will keep you progressing as the technology changes and will make you enjoyable to work with. They’re the ones that will keep the clients happy and will help ensure you don’t burn out.