13_Optimising your career

Career optimisation is really non-negotiable if you are going to remain relevant in the marketplace. 
 
A significant part of making the most of your career is not necessarily hinged on your core hard skills, rather it is based on a strategic blend of both hard skills and key soft skills. 

While technical or hard skills are necessary as core bases for getting into a role, when it comes to thriving on your role and making the most of your career, the place of your soft skills cannot be over emphasised. It is certainly arguable to say that your survival, success and significant in your career will be predicated on your ability to use your soft skills in optimising your hard skills. 

The happenings around the world post pandemic demand for a degree of preparedness in being nimble and ready for continues transformation. 

This is because wherever you have transformation, the shelf life your hard skills become impacted and that put more premium on your soft skills.  
The need to begin to reconfigure how you deploy your hard skills becomes much more critical.

Additionally, with crisis comes new opportunities for transformation. 

One thing is certain, the way we work and do business will be and has continue to be deeply transformed. With that transformation comes the need to master soft skills for new roles that are being create in place of the old roles that may be disappearing. 

Things are changing at Macro and Micro economic level. Institutions are reconfiguring  operating models.

One of the legitimate questions to ask with the challenges and opportunities that the Covid-19 pandemic presents is...
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