{"id":788,"date":"2015-11-23T18:44:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cn7w3i4565-staging.onrocket.site\/?p=788"},"modified":"2017-06-28T08:47:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T08:47:47","slug":"how-can-you-advance-your-skills-for-a-future-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/how-can-you-advance-your-skills-for-a-future-job\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Advance Your Skills for a Future Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a job market of ever increasing competition and ever reducing opportunities, its no surprise that some job seekers are taking jobs in new industries. This may not have been the original career plan but sometimes you have to be flexible in order to keep\u00a0food on the table. So in order to prime yourself for the unforeseeable, you need to ensure\u00a0you can advance your skills for a future job?\u00a0Without any further ado,\u00a0\u00a0here are three ways to keep fortifying your professional talents:\"Dream-Employee\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Keep Improving Your Skills At Work<\/h2>\n

Whatever job\u00a0you find yourself doing and in whichever industry, you can actively keep your skills current, studied and practiced. Whether you\u2019re a web developer working in a bank or a journalist\u00a0working in sales. For example as a budding journalist you can keep your writing skills on point by setting yourself\u00a0weekly writing projects to strengthen my craft.<\/p>\n

\"multitasking\"<\/a>2. Look For Extra Responsibilities<\/h2>\n

Someone smart once told me that you have to push yourself out of your comfort zone in order to improve. Ask you boss to give you some more difficult tasks that will push your skills and challenge you to improve. Furthermore this shows your boss you’re not afraid of a challenge and helps you stand out from the crowd. It\u2019s a win-win situation and everybody is happy.<\/p>\n

3. Blog, Tweet, Post\u00a0\"socialJobSearch\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

This may not be everybody’s ‘cup of tea’ (excuse the British saying), but getting an understanding of your company likes to market itself is the key to learning more about who you\u2019re working for. It is the quickest and easiest way to work out how you can maximize your worth to the company as an asset. Make yourself indispensable.<\/p>\n

So, if you have found yourself working in a job that isn’t your preferred industry, think of it as an opportunity to improve your skills. Make your job work for your skills. Future proof them.<\/p>\n

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In a job market of ever increasing competition and ever reducing opportunities, its no surprise that some job seekers are taking jobs in new industries. This may not have been the original career plan but sometimes you have to be flexible in order to keep\u00a0food on the table. So in order to prime yourself for Continued \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,74,79,3],"tags":[94,280,242,279,189],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-advice","category-employment","category-job-interview","category-jobs","tag-career","tag-freelance","tag-jobs","tag-responsibility","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}