Career - Power Your Future
Power Your Future with
EESTEC Trainings
Text: Nermin Smajic, LC Sarajevo
Photographs: Training Team
EESTEC was and is investing a lot in the development of its members’ soft skills through
different events, activities and trainings which
are being organized everywhere in Europe.
Both participants and trainers witnessed the
big opportunities that these events offer and
we can be glad to receive so much positive
feedback about them. Becoming members of
TrT and even participating in EESTEC’s soft
skills trainings is something that changed
the life of our members and something that
broadened their horizons, made them more
open for communication, pushed them to discover themselves and to create more powerful relations with other people.
While being students, we have many opportunities to learn, develop and gain new experiences for which we won’t have that much time
when we start working. No matter which way
and what we will actually do in the future for
our living, it will be harder to cope with the
challenges than it is during student life. Companies today do value soft skills more than
they did before, but still the focus is on hard
skills, which is fundamental for their existence
and which is the education they invest most
in. This and many more other facts leave less
space for investing in the development of soft
skills in the workplace and this is already a
strong reason to take the opportunities which
EESTEC offers you, to work on your soft skills
and parallel prepare for the working environment, which is waiting for you.
No matter if you already did some research
on the topic of soft skills or not, before going deeper into some soft skills topics like the
ability to manage time, to manage your projects, to have good presentation or communication skills, one probably most important
fact is to know yourself really well, sometimes
even better than the things you are going to
work on during your job. It happens quite
often that people are doing something they
don’t like or they are not successful at. Reasons for which these situations occur can vary
from individual to individual but very often
they are that they don’t know their strengths
and weaknesses very well, they don’t have a
clear picture of what are their interests and
what they feel really comfortable with.
Knowing yourself and about your traits is
probably one of the most important aspect of
soft (or sometimes called social) skills. Each
of us has special gifts that are better suited to
specific areas of life than others. What others
like or are good at doesn’t mean that the same
applies to you. It’s not always clear where
your strengths lie which is why it sometimes
takes time and experience to figure it out. Use
the chances which EESTEC offers to you, get
involved and find out about yourself. When
doing so you will have a much better background for achieving better results, especially
in the fields you really like and to which you
devote yourself and your time, and hopefully
in your future employment as well.
Members of Training Team:
“My everyday life changed a lot after
becoming an EESTEC trainer. I observe
everything around me and I try to understand more and more how things work,
how people react, the motivation behind
a crosstalk and many more.”
Christos Konstantinidis, LC Athens
“I am currently working on a business
project in Zepter International as a project
manager and being a trainer is why I got
the job and why I was promoted to project X[