Working in various software teams for many years can teach you some valuable lessons like improving communication skills, building a network, and understanding who to contact when you are stuck, this will impress your colleagues and show that you are a person that focuses on self-development and aims to do a good job at work.
In general, you will receive benefits like more responsibility, better work terms, a better job role, and a higher salary. So how can we become a valuable team player and why is it so important?
1. I can do this — mentality
We have all been in situations where we are asked to work with something we have little or no experience with. So what do we do? Do you tell the person you do not know, or do you show that you are willing to find the solution?
If you give it a try you can learn something, but if you do not try then you will gain almost nothing. When working in a software team, it is important to have — let me try this mentality. This will create a good appearance and they will see that you are enthusiastic to expand your skills and also take more responsibility for things. However, at times, we cannot solve something but at least we can provide alternatives, this is explained in the next section.
