{"id":1017,"date":"2012-08-14T05:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T09:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2012-05-28T12:32:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:32:57","slug":"keep-your-skills-current-at-all-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/keep-your-skills-current-at-all-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your skills current at all times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/keep-your-skills-current-at-all-times\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Strategic tips for managing your career &#8211; if you are &#8211; or seek to be &#8211; a paddler&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>Keep your skills current at all times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To be successful at managing your career, you must constantly upgrade and enhance your abilities. Seek out continuing education\u2014learn new skills, methods, techniques, strategies, and tactics to stay at the leading edge of your field.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re an executive chef, senior manager, or an individual contributor, you must be as good as you can be\u2014there\u2019s always a competitor one step behind you.\u00a0 Fall is near, school starts for all children soon, and this is a great time to think about what skills you need to update or what new skills you need.<\/p>\n<p>Spending 30 minutes a day you on your strengths or a skill, just five days a week will net you 130 hours of focus a year.\u00a0 That is a small investment of time and will create solid mastery.\u00a0 What skill do you need to hone?<\/p>\n<p>Action Tip:<\/p>\n<p>Identify a skill to update.\u00a0 Write down why it is important to you to update this skill.\u00a0 Now, develop a plan to hone or update your skill.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a question about applying this action tip to your search? Look to the right and sign up for next Q &amp; A session, join the session and ask your question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategic tips for managing your career &#8211; if you are &#8211; or seek to be &#8211; a paddler&#8230; 7. Keep your skills current at all times. To be successful at managing your career, you must constantly upgrade and enhance your abilities. Seek out continuing education\u2014learn new skills, methods, techniques, strategies, and tactics to stay at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,7],"tags":[9,71,142,5],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-tips","category-career-management","category-job-search-focus","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-action-tip","tag-career-management","tag-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}