What transferable skills do you need to work with blockchain?

‘Transferable skills’ (sometimes known as ‘soft skills’ or personal attributes and behaviours) play a key role in a career with blockchain technologies. These include:

• Strategic thinking, innovation and problem-solving skills will enable you to shine in a blockchain environment.
• Good collaborators are in a strong position to navigate within the diverse blockchain ecosystems, work more effectively with professionals of different backgrounds, often remotely.
• Critical thinking, curiosity, capacity for observations and inquiry will help you to cope with the complexity of blockchain systems.
• Identifying connections between blockchain systems, performing quantitative evaluations and being capable of interpreting such evaluations will help you become a highly desirable blockchain professional.
• You will also need strong numeracy skills, and be capable of representing information quantitatively, using statistics and analysis.
• Deductive, inductive, and mathematical reasoning will allow you to distinguish innovative blockchain solutions and convince the community about them.
• Resilience, agility and adaptation will help you respond successfully to the opportunities and challenges along the development of your blockchain career path.

Blockchain work ethics and values

Last but not least, developing a ‘blockchain mindset’ and culture, embracing and becoming an ambassador for the values of the blockchain community, will help you establish yourself.

These values include understanding the virtue of decentralisation, of participation, of being accountable, transparent and respectful of the privacy of customers and other stakeholders you work with.