TIP: Re-engineering Skills: The art of doing something other than what you were originally trained to do

Kathy Freeland, author of "Navigating Your Way To Business Success", says, "In a down job market, we must be able to reinvent ourselves through learning new skills and developing new capabilities in order to land the jobs that are available." A potential employee is more valuable to a firm if he/she can wear different hats as required.

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TIP: Top skills for 2016 derive from STEM education-oriented initiatives (science, technology, engineering and math)

It’s important to stay up-to-date with the technology industry, as it's constantly evolving and improving. Many tech skills have a high turnover rate, meaning a skill learned last year might be absolutely useless tomorrow. A study by Research in Labor Economics concluded that approximately one-third of tech skills learned a year prior lacked value today. On the bright side, the introduction of new systems gives way to a dearth of people who understand how to navigate them, and a great opportunity to be one of the first in the game.

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