Explore, Learn, and Succeed

The more you learn, the more confidence you gain, and the more confidence you have, the more attainable your career goals will be.

With that in mind, we've sharing some great resources to help you decide what you'd like to learn next, whether you're to explore a new interest, or advance your career.

• 7 High-Income Skills Worth Learning in 2024
  Developing these seven skills could lead to more job opportunities and bigger salary.
• How to Motivate Yourself: 11 Tips for Self Improvement

Every job requires some combination of workplace skills and technical skills, and chances are, you have already built an impressive skill set derived from your education or past work experience.

Develop these 7 skills could lead to a more job opportunities and a bigger salary.

1. Data analysis
   
   Analytical thinking and innovation is the top skill forecasted in the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report. As businesses across industries increasingly rely on data to make informed decisions, they require more employees with the ability to collect, interpret, and share data that can solve their business problems.
   People skilled in data analysis may use a range of tools including Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Structured Query Language (SQL), Tableau, R or Python.
    
2. Software development
   
   Increasingly, industries are turning toward technology to advance their business capabilities, and they need people skilled in developing, maintaining, and improving their technological systems. People who work in DevOps or Software Engineering (SE) build, monitor, and control an organization's technology.
   People skilled in DevOps or SE may use tools like Git, Docker, Jenkins, or Kuberneters, and may know coding languagues like Python, Java, PHP or C++.
    
3. User experience
   
   Hand in hand with tech development comes user experience (UX), which has to do with the way a consumer interacts with a product. People working in UX figure out the best way to present a product to comsumers. They may conduct research, design, or help market a product.
   Although they still involve some data, UX roles are grounded in design and tern to offer room for creativity.
    
4. Web development
   
   Web development brings together the fundamentals of software development and user experience, incorporating the technical aspects of the former with the design elements of the latter. People skilled in web development will also be familiar with technical search optimization (SEO) in order to design and program websites that meet business needs.
    
5. Project management
   
   Many companies use an organizational structure in which defferent departments, teams, or team members all work on a single product or project. A person who is skilled in coordinating efforts across each of those touchpoints is skilled in project management. These team members may be responsible for maintaining schedules, organizing budgets, and communicating with project stakeholders (or various parties interested or invested in the project outcomes).
   You can consider "project management" to be a catch-all term for leadership, communication, planning, resilience, and organizational skills-all of which are frequently cited as valuable to employers.
   Project management shows up in many careers and becomes especially important as you move into managerial positions. However, you can also pursue a career as a project manager.
    
6. Account management
   
   While project management typically has an internal focus, account management taps into a similar subset of skills to work with people outside of your organization. Often highly valued in sales positions, account management skills enable you to confidently position your company and its products to customers.
   Account management skills incorporate both the organizational aspects required to close a business deal as well as the interpersonal skills required to productively negatiate and maintain relationships. They often work with a customer relationship management (CRM) tool like Salesforce.
    
7. Content creation and management
   
   Content creation and management skills involve storytelling and are often crucial for marketing careers. This skill set incorporates creativity, originality, social perceptiveness, and emotional intelligence. Taking these skills a step further can also mean adding data analysis to your toolbox, specially honing in on marketing analytics so that you can assess how well an audience is connecting with your content.

Keep learning!

You can build many skills through your regular work activities, and bolster your skill set with outside classes or certifications. Keep trying!

Achieve your goals with these science-backed motivation enhancers.

Setting a goal-anything from getting a degree or landing a new job to achieving a new level of physical fitness-is a big step toward improving your life. But following through to achieve what we've set out to accomplish can be challenging, especially on those days when motivation wanes. So how do you follow through on your commitments during those times when you just don't feel like putting in the work?

We all lose motivation from time to time. When you're feeling unmotivated, try one of these science-backed strategies to get yourself back on track toward your goal.

1. Put your goal on the calendar.
2. Make working toward your goal a habit.
3. Plan for imperfection.
4. Set small goals to build momentum. -> "If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task, and another, and another " Naval Admiral William H. McRaven (The Former Navy SEAL) gave this advice during his commencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014.
5. Track your progress. -> Seeing progress can be highly motivating. Use a tool to help you track your goals, or just keep a journal.
6. Reward yourself for the little wins as well as the big ones.
7. Embrace positive peer pressure. -> You are the one who puts in the work to achieve your goals. But other people can be a great motivator. Reseach shows that feeling like you're part of a team can lead to boosted perseverance, engagement and performance, even if you are working alone. Sharing your goal with someone whose opinion you value can strengthen your commitment to attaining that goal. For work goals, consider sharing with a mentor or supervisor.
8. Practice gratitude (including for yourself).
9. Do some mood lifting. -> A good mood has been linked to increased productivity and improvement in both quality and quantity of work. That doesn't mean that you have to be positive all the time - that is not realistic. But if you're feeling sluggish about working toward your goal, a quick mood lift could be enough to get you started. Consider those ideas: Spend some time in nature (or at least get some sunlight). Watch Youtube fun videos. Look at a nice picture.
10. Change your environment. -> Sometimes a change of scenery can help you approach your task with fresh eyes and add a new sense of motivation. This is called the novelty effect - a short term boost that comes from altering your environment. I usually go to Highland Coffee or The Coffee House, both popular coffee shops in Vietnam.
11. Remember your "why." -> Why is this goal important to you? Why is that reason important to you? Why is that reason important to you?  Keep digging until you get to your ultimate "why" - the core value that's driving your goal.
    To further reinforce your "why", set an alarm every morning to remind yourself to spend one or two minutes visualizing what success would look like. What would it feel like to achieve your goal?