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The Profession: Introduction Professionalism Traits of A Professional Applying Professionalism in Daily Life

This document discusses the traits and responsibilities of professionals. It defines a profession as a paid occupation requiring formal training and qualifications. Professionals have responsibilities beyond their job duties, such as ensuring work complies with legal standards. The document outlines 10 traits of professionals, including seriousness, initiative, communication skills, and leadership. It provides scenarios for software engineers to consider applying traits like acting legally, morally, and ethically when handling training requests, pro bono work, and pirated software usage.

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The Profession: Introduction Professionalism Traits of A Professional Applying Professionalism in Daily Life

This document discusses the traits and responsibilities of professionals. It defines a profession as a paid occupation requiring formal training and qualifications. Professionals have responsibilities beyond their job duties, such as ensuring work complies with legal standards. The document outlines 10 traits of professionals, including seriousness, initiative, communication skills, and leadership. It provides scenarios for software engineers to consider applying traits like acting legally, morally, and ethically when handling training requests, pro bono work, and pirated software usage.

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The Profession

 Introduction

 Professionalism

 Traits of a Professional

 Applying Professionalism in Daily Life

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Introduction
 Profession: A paid occupation, especially one that
involves prolonged training and a formal qualification.

 Professional: A professional is a member of


a profession or any person who earns their living from a
specified professional activity. The term also describes
the standards of education and training that prepare
members of the profession with the particular knowledge
and skills necessary to perform their specific role within
that profession.
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Professional Responsibilities

 With reference to Information Technology, Computer


Science or Software Engineering, the responsibilities of
working professionals in this area include network
administration, software development and installation,
and the planning and management of an organization's
technology life cycle, by which hardware and software is
maintained, upgraded and replaced.

 But these are not ENOUGH.

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Engineering Council states that other
than professional Knowledge, an
Engineer must know
 Technical decision making and its commercial and
economic implementation;…knowledge of government
legislation affecting work, e.g. safety, health,
environmental requirements; an understanding of the
principles of management and industrial relations; some
knowledge of trade unions and their organization; an
understanding of the engineer’s responsibility to the
profession, to the community and to the environment Page 4
The Professionalism

 A profession isn’t just what you do, it’s who you are.

 Professionalism is a way of thinking and living rather


than an accumulation of learning.

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Traits of a Profession

Four Traits of Profession

1. Varied activities requiring special skills

2. Society-centric motivation

3. Personal standards of excellence

4. Giving back to society

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A professional behaves ethically

 Ethics means something more than ‘law’ and ‘morals’.

 It carries an additional connotation of ‘rightness’.

 Breaking the law: can earn a fine or jail time

 Breaking a moral: can ruin your reputation

 Breaking an ethic: can ruin your conscience

It’s possible to break all three, simultaneously!

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Traits of a Professional

 Being a professional means that they are certain traits


which are expected from you.

 We will go through Each of them

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Trait # 1 of a professional: Seriousness

 Serious about job

 The job is only a job. A means to an end

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Trait # 2 of a professional: Wanting to
do better

 Exhibit a never-ending quest to improve their


performance in every variable, every project, every
relationship, and every detail.

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Trait # 3 of a professional: Dealing with
the Unexpected

 Stuff happens, things change, and the true professional


rises to the occasion

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Trait # 4 of a professional:
Communication Skills

 Clear

 Concise

 Confident

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Trait # 5 of a professional: Enthusiasm

 Attitude is everything. Those who exhibit enthusiasm for


what they do and greet each day with a positive attitude
inevitably become a leader

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Trait # 6 of a professional: Helpfulness

 Understand that real success in the workplace requires


teamwork

 Always ready to lend a hand

 Make a suggestion

 Offer a compliment when it’s deserved

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Trait # 7 of a professional: Taking the
Initiative

 Takes the initiative to get things done

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Trait # 8 of a professional: Cool under
Pressure

 Level headed and calm

 Cheerful -even under stressful times

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Trait # 9 of a professional: Remains
Focused

 Stay focused on the task at hand and the goal ahead

 Navigate through obstacles or setbacks but never lose


sight of where they headed

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Trait # 10 of a professional: Don’t
Follow, Lead

 True Professionals aren’t faint of heart

 Analyze the situation and willing to take new paths and


try new solutions

 That’s why they call it LEADERSHIP!

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Applying Professionalism in Real Life

Scenario #1
 You are the owner of a software engineering company.
Your employees (engineers) want you to pay for them to
attend training.

 How would you respond in a way that is legal, moral, and


ethical?

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Scenario #2

 You are the owner of a software engineering company.


Your employees (engineers) want you to let them do pro
bono work for a local non-profit organization on company
time.

 How would you respond in a way that is legal, moral, and


ethical?

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Scenario #3

 You are a software engineer at a company where


management routinely encourages you and your
colleagues to use pirated software.

 How would you respond in a way that is legal, moral, and


ethical?

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Thank you!

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