5 Tips on How to Update Your Skills

[fayt]

Learning a new skill can be your best option to keep pace in these highly technological times and most importantly provide for your needs and that of your family too. The skills that you currently have may no longer provide you with the benefits it once gave to you. Or those skills may no longer provide you with a lucrative pay as it previously did, say, 10 years ago.

Take for example, professionals specializing in mainframes or COBOL were in-demand 15 or 20 years ago. Today, those skills may prove to be challenging to utilize in the age of Web 2.0, HTML5 or CSS. Or a door-to-door salesman may no longer be needed as people these days have various options on where to get information on what, where, how and when to buy. Experts call this phenomenon as a change in buyer behaviour. Thus, a career as a personal financial adviser can be a better option as this will also involve selling not a product but yourself as a service provider. A personal financial adviser helps people manage their finances by telling them how best to save, invest and generally grow their money.

So how do we make ourselves relevant in these times? Listed below are 5 tips on how to update your skills:

1. Determine what you really like to do.

As they say, if you enjoy what you are doing you don't need to work a single day in your life. Enjoying what you do precedes everything even the aspect of compensation and choice of pay rates. Focus on what you really want to do, a hobby perhaps can be a start. You will never be good at doing something if you hate doing that something. You need to love your work.

2. Visualize your future.

In most questionnaires given to us by hiring managers, they require us to answer this rather deceptively simple question, "What will you be doing 5 or 10 years from now?" Your answer of course, will provide inputs to the hiring manager on what type of a person you are, your plans and how you organize yourself to achieve your goals. The same is true if you want to remain relevant today and in the future. One way to do this is to research on jobs that are currently in-demand and will still be needed 10 or 20 years from now. Align your personal and professional goals with these realities.

3. Make an inventory of your skills-set that needs updating.

You must remember that you also need to consider where you are weak at and not just where you are good at. For example, your passion for writing may make you a good writer but a career in advertising copywriting which is in-demand these days is an altogether different field which requires different training.

4. Search for experts or enrol in on-line classes.

Your passion for accounting especially if you haven't used this skill in your current job may require you to learn basic MS Excel or later on advanced accounting softwares. Determining what you need will lead you to find the right person or organization to teach you this skill. Local colleges or universities may have classes suitable to your schedule or you can try on-line classes or e-learning tools for more convenience and affordability.

5. Learning never ends.

The need for continuous learning is a necessity not only yesterday but more importantly today and in the near future. After leaving school, it does not mean we have to stop reading and learning too. In fact, we grow as a person and as a professional if we continue to believe that learning never ends. What we have learned in the past may no longer work today so we have the responsibility to constantly update our knowledge and skills.

Keeping pace with the times requires hard work and may involve lots of sacrifices. But with the prospect of becoming irrelevant and unable to provide for the needs of our families, we need to have a clear direction on where to go ASAP. After, setting our overall directions we now need to consider how to achieve those goals given our strengths and limitations. The how part involves learning new skills and acquiring new knowledge.

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[gab]

This is true specially for IT professionals.  Thanks for sharing.

Cheers!

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[fayt]

This is true specially for IT professionals.  Thanks for sharing.

Cheers!

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whoa.. salamat po sir sa pagbisita sa thread at sa pagdalaw po....

[soap35]

Thanks for sharing..

[fayt]

Thanks for sharing..

Salamat din po sa pagdaan sir.

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[mangmax]

Kung tutuusin, libre na ang kaalaman sa panahon ngayon salamat sa Internet. Lahat ng bagay pwede mo na IGoogle. Gusto mo magaral, nagkalat ang mga tutorials sa internet maski mga pirated na ebooks kung hahanapin mo lang talaga. Meron ding mga free online courses tulad ng Khan Academy, Coursera, MIT OpenCourseWare, etc. At hindi basta basta ang mga nagtuturo dito dahil galing din sila sa mga primerang kolehiyo sa buong mundo.

Ang kabobohan ay bunsod na lamang ng katamaran sa panahon ngayon. Maliban na nga lang kung nasa liblib na lugar ka talaga ng Pilipinas na walang kuryente at internet, sapukin kita pag sinabi mo saking wala kasi kayong computer/net sa bahay kaya di ka makapag aral. Hello kuya, nakakapag facebook/dota/pinoycyberkada ka nga eh! :p

[Pinoymasterp]

thanks boss, very motivational. haha good day

[fayt]

thanks boss, very motivational. haha good day

Salamat po sir sa pagbisita sa thread.

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[fayt]

Kung tutuusin, libre na ang kaalaman sa panahon ngayon salamat sa Internet. Lahat ng bagay pwede mo na IGoogle. Gusto mo magaral, nagkalat ang mga tutorials sa internet maski mga pirated na ebooks kung hahanapin mo lang talaga. Meron ding mga free online courses tulad ng Khan Academy, Coursera, MIT OpenCourseWare, etc. At hindi basta basta ang mga nagtuturo dito dahil galing din sila sa mga primerang kolehiyo sa buong mundo.

Ang kabobohan ay bunsod na lamang ng katamaran sa panahon ngayon. Maliban na nga lang kung nasa liblib na lugar ka talaga ng Pilipinas na walang kuryente at internet, sapukin kita pag sinabi mo saking wala kasi kayong computer/net sa bahay kaya di ka makapag aral. Hello kuya, nakakapag facebook/dota/pinoycyberkada ka nga eh! :p

Very well said.. knowledge is almost around the net..

Salamat po sir sa pagbisita..

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[jatet]

Ang pinaka cost-effective is via self-study. Ganito lagi ko ginagawa.

[Itachi101]

parang personal intervention ito ha
very informative

[fayt]

Ang pinaka cost-effective is via self-study. Ganito lagi ko ginagawa.

nice sir... dami kasi info sa net na pede tayo rin mismo mag aral...

[fayt]

parang personal intervention ito ha
very informative

welcome po sir..

salamat po sa pagbisita

[soap35]

Nice thread

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[fayt]

Nice thread

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salamat sa pagbuhay ng thread boss... . . . . . .. . . . . . . .