Step 5: Join the FCSI as a Professional Member. Once an individual has been employed for three years as a project manager in a food industry consulting firm and has been established as a senior associate member of the FCSI, that person is eligible to become a professional member of the FCSI.
Improving Your Soft Skills. College students tend to think a high GPA and a degree will ensure career success. While a good GPA is an indication that a college student can work hard and perhaps manage their time well, you need soft skills to be successful in the workplace. While in college if soft skill courses or seminars are offered you should attend them. They are as important as your degree or your GPA.
Assuming that soft skills are universal leads to much frustration. That's why it's so important to focus as much on soft skills training and development as you do on traditional hard skills. When your workforce has lots of technical skills but an absence of soft skills, you have a soft skills gap. Soft skills are what accompany the hard skills, and help your organization use its technical expertise to full advantage.