3 Easy Tech Skills you can add to your Resume before 2016

It’s not always easy to learn a new skill. With all of the day to day tasks and never-ending errands, taking the time to learn a new skill often gets pushed to the bottom of the pile. More so than ever, learning new tools and applications is essential to keeping up in an accelerating job environment and becoming must-haves for any strong resume. Here are three skills that you can learn before the new year and the resources to help you.

1. Photoshop

Photoshop is an extremely useful tool for professionals in many positions. The amount of features can be daunting, but don’t let that deter you. A basic understanding of the software will allow you to do a lot of incredible things with images.

Download a free trial here: Photoshop and work through these tutorials: retouching photos, layers, and editing.

2. Google Analytics

You cannot empirically improve a website without good data. There are hundreds of analytics tools out there, but at the bedrock of any data toolset is google analytics. Having an understanding of how to accurately aggregate and read data through analytics is helpful in any job role.

Just sign up for Google Analytics Academy and go through the lessons at your leisure.

3. HTML & CSS

Techie or not, code is a fundamental part of the working world. Having a basic understanding of HTML & CSS isn’t a giant leap from having a basic grasp of the english language. Knowing how to read and manipulate code can also save you loads of time and hassle in chasing a developer down to swap out an image or change a link.

This interactive online course makes it easy and only takes a total of 7 hours from start to finish.

Always be improving.