What Five Personality Traits its are needed to be a good contract writer?
The answers of the seven respondents were surprisingly similar. In the table below, I have shaded the answers that were given by more than one respondent (taking some leeway in interpretation): #1 Confident Able to sell yourself and your skills – contacts Drive Good working and writing skills Subject matter expertise #2 Risk-taker Flexible Willing to try anything Good working and writing skills Tactful** #3 Confident Flexible Intelligent* Independent Diplomatic** #4 Confident Flexible Learns quickly* Independent Able to get along well with others** #5 Confident Flexible Open-minded Independent organized #6 Versatile Flexible Open-minded Persistent Innovative+ #7 Curiosity Able to communicate with software developers, both to ask the right Empathetic – Able to identify audience and “put yourself in their shoes” Independent Ingenuity (It often takes ingenuity to satisfy curiosity Table 3 * Interpreted to mean the same thing ** Interpreted to mean the same thing + Interpreted to mean the
