Formal education might play a vital role in your career but there are certain skills you need to learn while perusing your UG or PG that will help you kick start your career and stand out among millions of your age competing for success. Here is the skill set you need:
1.) Communication:
Having people to engage in talking to you and giving them a clear message of what you want to say without any misunderstandings is a valuable skill a lot of people lack these days. Having good communication skills will help you in the field of marketing and sales and will help you build a good repo with you fellow colleagues and seniors, increasing your chances of a promotion or a hike.
2.) Basic Programming:
In this fast changing dynamic world, computers are the future every year about a million jobs are vacant and only 1/3 of our population is qualified to do them. Even if you are from an arts or commerce background learning computer programming will give you an edge among your colleagues. You can always try learning a computer language like C++ and C as an additional course. As a plus, it also makes you CV look good.
3.) Affiliated Digital Marketing:
It is the easiest skill to learn in your past time, and you can also make some quick cash out of it. Moreover, it will help you build and market your own business, anytime anywhere. Almost all industries these days are looking up to market their company or product online opening up many jobs for digital marketing. There are many online courses offering a course in digital marketing with proper learning you this skill can give you good financial security.
4.) Learning A Foreign Language:
A lot of MNC’s these days look for people who speak foreign languages so that they can hire them for market expansion and send them abroad. It’s a very useful skill to have in an alien country where you don’t know anyone, and you can always work as a full-time translator which one of the highest paying jobs these days. You could earn more than 1 lakh just by translating!