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How to Figure Out Which Skills You Need to Learn to Improve Your Career - Scott H Young

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In my course I teach with Cal Newport, we encourage students to cultivate rare and valuable skills in order to improve your career. Among the countless ways you could potentially improve your career, we focus on this approach for a few key reasons. First, actually increasing the value you provide employers, clients and customers directly impacts your bargaining power. While many other suggestions (networking, resume building, credentials) also matter—they tend to change how you are perceived. Learning rare and valuable skills changes what you are. Second, the more valuable you are the easier other parts of career development become. If you have a really useful portfolio of skills, networking and office politics becomes a lot easier. We like to associate with top performers, and so those who have rare and valuable skills tend to also have more allies and contacts. That being said, this often raises a challenging question, which skills should you learn to reach this kind of enviable posi

In my course I teach with Cal Newport, we encourage students to cultivate rare and valuable skills in order to improve your career. Among the countless ways you could potentially improve your career, we focus on this approach for a few key reasons. First, actually increasing the value you provide employers, clients and customers directly impacts your bargaining power. While many other suggestions (networking, resume building, credentials) also matter—they tend to change how you are perceived . Learning rare and valuable skills changes what you are . Second, the more valuable you are the easier

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