By Bello Shehu Shuni,
belloshuni79@gmail.com
Skill is an inextricable combination of knowledge, experience, personal qualities and abilities that you have developed through your life and work. It is the ability to do something well. A well-developed skill can make us master in a particular field, and it can be learned too. Learning new skills helps in your professional life a lot. It helps you to achieve your goals, gives confidence, and gives you motivation for working too.
Developing your skills through training, higher education or experience provides significant benefits. Apart from increasing your own knowledge of the local industry, there are many other aspects too. Following are the advantages that will help you understand why it is important to develop one’s skills in a developing country.
Skills amplifies your employment and career development opportunities, this is very much applicable in developed nations, where they value skills than paper certificates. In order to stay relevant and employable in this modern era, we have to be updated. Yesterday’s solutions won’t solve tomorrow’s problems. If we take up the technical field, then there are new programming languages emerging, various new mechanical equipment coming up almost every day. Even if we take the marketing domain then we have new tactics surfacing every other month. With an updated excellent skills set, you may just get a salary hike or even become your own boss.
Skills helps Personal Growth.
Having a good skill also helps you grow as an individual. You build a network, learn time management and gain interpersonal skills. These skills only come with experience and no school or teacher can teach them.
Skills helps you to stand out from the crowd. If there’s a new software release or a dynamic new trend and you have it under your belt, then you’re going to shine. Not only will you receive lucrative offers but you will also have a unique selling point. We are not just talking about hard skills here, soft skills such as team management and leadership have also proven to travel the distance in the past.
It so helps to gain a sense of achievement. The best part of learning a new skill is feeling that sense of achievement. The entire process of learning is interesting and rewarding in itself. You can also gain great insights into your own character and capabilities. Who knows maybe valuable business contacts and new friends may come as by-products as well.
Priority must be placed on skills if the developing countries want to catch up with developed world.
