06_Skilling up for career growth

As we have already established that the best asset you have in your career growth is you and it will serve you well to proactively invest in your skills development.

First, it is important to note that the dynamism of the workplace demands that as a knowledge worker you will need to continue to up-skill and right skills so that you can respond to or lead the changing needs.

Committing to that process of skilling up systematically with the changing times does increase the shelf-life of your skills and gives you an advantage in the changing terrane of the workplace.

Talking about the shelf-life of your skills, the World Economic Forum (WEF) report of 2016, when considering the future of jobs raised questions about the “shelf life” of skills and the length of time a skill can be used without becoming unfit for use.