Start in Tech Industry without Knowing Tech

Diogo Pacheco Pedro
4 min readJun 21, 2022

Have you ever wondered or wished you could get into the Tech industry but don’t consider yourself Technical enough or feel is too late?

In this post, I will try to show you 5 skills which may surprise you on how you can get into the technology Industry using them, YES the same skills you already have and been using on daily basis.

When talking about skills we have

  • Hard Technical Skills
  • Soft Skills
  • Transferable Skills

Such skills are key for all types of business and not only in Tech but also any fast paced industries and roles.

People Skills

In the process of working in any company there will be always an aspect of handling people and such skill come naturally to many people and not so much for it is an overlooked skill which we in our everyday to day.

So do a little analysis and see how well you are with people and your interactions, you may be surprised how those translate beautifully to working in the Tech industry.

There are many scenarios but just to mention a few where people skills matter we can say:

  • When Showcasing proposed new features to a system Stakeholder (person in charge) and being clear and a good listener.
  • When understanding frustrations from people with existing systems or processes they are using and emphasising and genuinely…

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Diogo Pacheco Pedro

CRM Developer, Podcaster and Soon youtuber on everything Software Development & Customer Service