10 Skills And Assets That Will Guarantee
You a Bright Career
The world is in an ever increasing pace of development, our lifestyles became busy and with arising of the 20th century dream, everyone is just chasing after better opportunities and brighter careers.
But out there, there are a lot of students, workers and engineers that are seeking the same goal you’re after. So what’s is going to make you special ( we mean better of course) and have you get that job out of many others. Well according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the answer is simple. After surveying 350 executives from 9 industries in 15 of the world’s biggest economies, they came up with a set of skills that will land you the highest paid jobs by 2020.
In this article, we won’t just state for you these skills that’ll make sure you get high-paying jobs, but we’ll also guide you through assets you have to adopt to impress everyone and kick-start your current (or future) career.
Here are the top 10 skills that employers are demanding for 2020:
10. Cognitive flexibility:
Not sure what this means? It means generally having mental flexibility. This includes logical reasoning and problem sensitivity. It also means that you can adapt your speech based on the person you’re talking to; employers don’t expect you to talk to their customers the same way you talk to their suppliers.
9. Negotiation skills:
Well you’ve probably seen this one coming, simply because you cannot enter the new world’s economy without having communication skills and that’s mainly negotiation. Mastering the art of negotiation will make companies eager to recruit you; Being a fierce negotiator guarantees a company maximum profitability as you’d assure least expenses whether you’re negotiating with a supplier, or maximum benefits if you’re negotiating with a potential buyer.
8. Service orientation:
Now this one is often ignored by young job seekers or employees, Service orientation means how much you care for other people, and how much you’re actively trying to help those in need. How much you’re known for being a helper in your office; It’s not always about being the most ambitious and hard worker sometimes it’s about how much of a good friend you are.
7. Judgement and decision making:
This one is for you BI students and graduates out there, modern companies keep on harvesting data from different sources. And with that rises a need for smart people who can analyze those data and make intelligent decisions. Judgement however isn’t based on numbers or analysis, it’s about your own senses, whether you feel that a supplier isn’t committed or that a co-worker will ruin your team; Always trust your senses and don’t be hesitant to talk to your supervisor or directly to your boss.
6. Emotional intelligence:
Today with the spring up of robotics and artificial intelligence, and even though they do outreach workers in terms of productivity, they still can’t understand humans. Companies will hire those who are aware of others feelings, and who can help them overcome their emotions and who can also control their own feelings as well; in the end we’re humans and sometimes we will go through bad days, emotional intelligence is the ability to know when others are going through their bad days and to control your emotions and never let them hinder your productivity on your bad days.
5. Team working:
Now as you advance with your career, you’ll have to work more and more in groups to solve a problem or to overcome a situation, and you won’t always work with friendly people, some people are just unfriendly and annoying. Team working means you can set your differences and personal thoughts about a person aside, and to cooperate with them all along the project; never let personal relations affect your job or your professionalism.
4. People management:
Ever heard of the saying “the right man in the right place”? That’s basically everything people management is about, it’s about identifying the right people to hire and where they will operate more efficiently. Your people management skills interprets how close you are to your team/staff; example try to avoid putting two people who don’t get along in the same team.
3. Creativity:
Well yes, you don’t have to be a painter or a designer to be creative. Whether you’re a developer or an engineer there’s always some place for creativity in your job. Companies seek those who have a high creativity because creativity encourages innovation and well, if you’re innovative then you’re simply hired.
2. Critical thinking:
In a world where the implementation of machinery and algorithms is sky rocking, the need for people who can use logic and reasons increases. Because no matter how advanced robots can be they’re always prone for mistakes, that’s why there has to be people who can always make a second check to help keep everything’s in place; critical thinking is critical for a reason, those who implement it can always benefit their companies by searching and finding ways to use technology (or anything else) to improve: work condition, revenues and productivity.
1. Complex-problem solving:
As its name implies, complex problem-solving is about solving complex problems. Even though all you career is about solving problems, but this skills is quite different, it’s about how you react in times of crisis, pressure or just when your company is running short on time. CPS is about handling and overcoming problems that are not usually faced, let’s say when a whole factory shuts down because of an error in the software, problem solving will be to shutdown the factory until the problem is solved, meanwhile complex problem solving is finding a way to keep the factory rolling and fixing the problem simultaneously and in a very brief time.
Bonus tip: always look after yourself in terms of fashion, grooming. A person of style is a person of attitude. Aside from earning that kickass first time impression giving attention to the way you look shows that you give attention for other things as well.
Now, you know what you have to implement to make you highly competitive and have nobody else except you nail that job interview or receive that promotion, so what are you waiting for?
