Now you have a choice during this period of lockdown, during Coronavirus we are all stuck. We are all staying home and right now we have more free time; you can choose to waste that free time or invest that time to do something productive.
With all the IT knowledge you have gathered at school and through experience, one of the most productive things you can do is to Learn a skill Set because maybe you have unfortunately lost your job or thought of how best you can earn extra money aside from your monthly salary. When things go back to normal are you ready to get a new job, will you be prepared?
Whatever you are going to do after this crisis, what will allow you to do all these things are your skills, we are shifting from a job economy to a skills economy and I believe during this lockdown some of the most valuable skills that you could develop as you can Learn to meet these 4 criteria;
- The skillset that has no immediate impact on your life, your carrier or your Business
Not a skill that takes years to see any result, there is something you can learn and it is practical.
- IT DOESN’T TAKE YOU YEARS TO LEARN. You don’t need to go back to school again for 4 years of education but instead, you can learn this in months or sometimes in a matter of weeks
- YOU CAN LEARN FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME. You don’t need to go for a physical location you can learn this from your computer just from your home all you need is an internet connection.
- YOU CAN LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE. Meaning that when you want you can bench watch or bench learn, you can teach yourself what you want to learn through plenty of time may be over a number of days or weeks in a small-time you could do that as well.
4 Skills You Should Learn During Lockdown, all these skillsets cut across all business models from social, economic and politics
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CODING SKILL
Coders, programmers, developers, software engineers will always be in demand.
Things have changed and people have learned, they will structure their businesses differently, you structure your business and life differently, we will learn from you, so what Coronavirus did is to enslave them especially the traders. HTML, CSS, PHP, will be in demand. If you have an interest or thinking about it, Coding skill is extremely better.
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DIGITAL MARKETING SKILL
More businesses, more companies if they have been online, they’ve been selling online, now after this Coronavirus, they would be more there, it’s nice to sell online, it’s nice to do social media now it becomes a necessity, it is now becoming the new norm.
Businesses owners that have been selling offline now will be thinking, my goodness “you get through this you have to change” How can we take what we do into online for example if you have, let’s say you are running through gyms, and you have people coming all the time, this time the gyms are shut down when you come back now you are thinking how can l take my fellow strength back? How can I do this? How can I serve the work? This has happened to a number of businesses both small and big so they will need an online presence.
Learn digital marketing, do media sales, build websites, all those skills will be highly needed, gave the skills you can bring on the table
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CLOSING SKILL
The ability to close products or services, to sell them over the phone or over the internet or on zoom, those are very valuable skills. In this Coronavirus or this crisis, companies are lacking sales provision, let me say we have all these salespeople, how do we have the remote sales team instead of a sales team with a physical location? How can we sell a service or a product over the phone without a massive awareness, they are thinking differently, so if you have the ability to close phone sales, you would be with the ability to access products and services companies are ready to pay you when you can demonstrate that skill.
Closing would be one of the highest demand professions in the World because companies need revenue, they need skillful salespeople and they need them more than ever especially when things have come back to normal, they need closes.
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COPYWRITING SKILL
There are a number of media posts you see, every single media post that you see, every single email, every single landing page.
Companies advertising need copywriters and they will be always be needing copywriters. They will need someone to write their script, they will need someone to write on their social media platform almost every single day. Companies that do online marketing will need this skill of copywriting. Copywriting is a valuable skill; you don’t need to be the best English speaker.
I am not talking about content writing, my point is copywriting.
A brief statement to persuade someone to buy a commodity or service is all needed to earn money, all you need to understand is why do people buy? What influences people before they purchase or order for anything. This will help you to easily understand which kind of copy to use a campaign either on social media or mainstream media.
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