# Professional Development ### Why Professional Development? At Code Your Future, we want to help people change their lives. We do this by teaching them skills to get good jobs in the tech industry. We work with people who find it very hard to get jobs. And we know that just learning about tech is not enough to help someone get a job. ### What do we do? We made a plan to help people get better at work skills. We call this our Professional Development (PD) curriculum. The volunteers use this curriculum to help our students learn better and make it easier for them to get jobs. ### How do we do that? We need our trainees to understand that within tech teams people with different skill sets will be working together. We all have skills that can help a team. And we all have to learn some of them to be a better professional. Our competencies are based on these soft skills: * Basic professional skills * Confidence * Communication * Time/Project management * Teamwork * Problem-Solving * Employability --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.codeyourfuture.io/archive/archived-pages/personal-development.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.