4 Useful Skills To Learn During Lockdown | Learn & Earn From Home | Get a Job
Do you remember the time when Typewriter and Shorthand were important skills to have?
But they don’t exist anymore.
We had Cassettes and CD shops in every street, but not anymore.
Mainframes created a lot of jobs back then, not so many anymore.
So pandemic or not, things around us... change. And it’s important that we change with them.
So it doesn’t matter if COVID-19 has lowered your Salary or you just want to learn new skills to pay some bills...
Today, by the end of this video you will know exactly how to use your free time to stay ahead of the crowd.
Because in today’s video, we are going to see 4 types of Skills that is:
The skills you must learn to secure your future.
We will also talk about how to learn these skills.
And towards the end, I’ll give you a Bonus Tip so that you understand what it really takes to change with time!
Let’s begin.
So here are the 4 types of skills that you need to start developing right now that’ll also help you prepare for the future.
1) Technical Skills
The technical skills that you need to learn, depend on what Career you are into right now or what career you want to shift to.
For example…
If you want to be a writer… then write more!
You can practice by replying to questions on Quora, write a page on Wikipedia, write articles on your own blog.
If you like movies, you can write movie reviews.
And then you can attach all of these links to your resume and improve your portfolio.
Similarly, If you are a Graphic Designer, learn... Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. And to get better at it.. design posters and share them on Social Media.
Because making a commitment to post regularly will also develop discipline in you to practice every day.
If you want to become a video editor, learn Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, or even start as simple as Filmora. And if you are a software engineer, learn new technology... be it, blockchain, cloud computing, or learn a language you’ve always wanted to.. like DART, Python, or JavaScript.
Listen.. these days just 3 years or 4 years of graduation is not enough. You need to keep updating your technical skills.
To give you an example… you know that I am a Software Engineer by profession but I also share with you my personal finance experience that I’ve acquired during 10+ years of my corporate career.
Even though we do extensive research, I also have enrolled in Investment and Risk Management courses from IIM Bangalore, to learn, so that I can give you credible information in our Finance videos.
Because you deserve nothing less than top-notch quality.
Now, the easiest way to figure out what skills you need to learn… is to look at your resume.
I know.. resumes are scary and give us anxiety.
But look at it… and understand why.
- What sections are empty?
- What certifications are missing?
- What skills you would like to add there?
And get those… because those skills will not only boost your employability, but they will also make you stand out from the crowd.
Before we move on to the next skill, I would like you to comment below and tell me what technical skill, you are going to learn next.
For example...
Let this comment that you are going to make today be your commitment for tomorrow.
The next set of skills you need to develop are….
2) Communication Skills.
And to get better at communication, you need to work on 2 things…
a) Fluency in English language and
b) Presentation skills.
The only way to improve fluency is to use the language as much as we can.
So read English books, watch English movies and third is what you are already doing… watch The Urban Fight videos.
There is no one book or one video that’ll teach you English in one day.
It’s a combination of doing multiple things and using English regularly.
After you get fluency under your belt, next comes Presentation Skills. We might be fluent in a language, but presentation skills are about using that language and expressing ourselves clearly..
Whether it is while asking a question in a team meeting, giving a speech on stage or just asking someone out on a date!
And here are the 3 things you can do to get better at your presentation skills…
1) Get in front of a mirror and start talking to yourself in English..
If you don’t know what to talk about, just repeat dialogues of your favorite English TV shows.
2) Open your favorite book and read a chapter from it out loud;
Better if it’s in front of a friend or a family member.
3) And third and I swear, this method works like a charm
Join a public speaking club, like Toastmasters.
Clubs like these give you an opportunity to speak in front of an audience and these days, they are even conducting online meetings, where you can just log in from home and speak, no matter how good or bad your sentence formation skills are.
And the people of the club will only encourage you because that’s what they are there for too.
As I said earlier, it’s a process.
So start with one thing at a time.
In fact, comment below and tell me what you are going to do to improve your communication skills?
Comment below and commit to it, now.
3) Financial Skills
The one thing that we have all learned during this pandemic is that money is extremely important.
On one hand, our parents taught us that money is the root of all evil… forget about saving or investing.
And on the other hand.. Youtube puts, ‘Fundamental Analysis’ and ‘Stock Market’ videos in our recommended section, which is daunting.
So let’s take a step back and start with the basics.
Here are the 2 baby steps you need to take right now to improve your finances.
1) Understand what basic investment options are out there like FDs, RDs, Mutual Funds, Insurances. For that, check out this video titled, ‘How I bought a house before turning 25’, which tells you, where you can put your money and how much return you will get from each of the options.
In the second step, you need to learn, how to generate long-term wealth, using the Stock Market.
This is the place where your money works for you and makes more money.
Stock Market For Beginners and Trading Tutorial.
What is Stock Market? How does it make money? What is trading? How to not lose money while trading?...
I know that learning Finance sounds like a lot of work! But listen carefully.. because nobody is going to tell you this.. Money doesn’t just make you rich, it makes you financially independent.
And only when you are financially independent can you take your own life decisions... like which college to study in, whom to marry, where to settle without having to depend on your parents, siblings, or anybody else for money.
I know that ‘Finance’ itself is a complicated topic.. but breaking it down into simple tasks.. like just watching a video first… will get you closer to your financial goals.
So start learning.
4) Creative Skills
I think by now, you would’ve realized that life is a struggle, Jan Sangharsh Hai!
Ok, I am exaggerating. But as an adult, we do have to do a lot of things.
Keep learning new skills, Apply for Jobs, Maintain that job, Reply To Emails, Pay EMI, Do Taxes, Network with people, Invest Money, Pay Insurance, Cook every day, Keep the house clean, wash clothes… And all of this, when you don’t even have kids.
You need to do this day in and day out and you can’t let any of this burn you out.
So, develop at least one creative skill that makes you shut down for a few mins and forget that there is a to-do waiting.
It’s just like how you restart your phone when it gets too hot.
Because if you don’t... To each its own, but some skills that help you shut down are…
- Gardening
- Sketching A Mandala
- Making an Origami
- Painting
- Playing a musical instrument
- Photography
- Dance
You can practice these skills 2-3 times a week or even for 15 mins every day.
So take a moment to think and tell me what will be your creative skill?
But please, don’t write… I am going to be on phone, scrolling through Instagram as my Creative Skill.
Because Social Media only brings anxiety, not relaxation.
So throw your phone away during your pause ritual. All the skills that I am mentioning today are going to add up and come together beautifully, especially when we discuss, ‘How to Make Money from Home’ in our future blogs.
We all want to earn some extra bucks, find how what we love can make us money or just help our parents by having a side-income.
Whatever be your reason, do not miss out on our future blogs on how to make money by subscribing to our blog because as you know, we make Career, Finance, and Communication videos, regularly.
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