Treat Yourself To New Skills!
Skills are valuable things. With them, you can create, build, accomplish. In a barter system environment, you can trade them for goods, parlay them into opportunities, establishing ongoing and mutual beneficial service-based relationships. Choose wisely which ones you learn, and they can earn you fame, prestige, opportunity.
Skills also get you hired. Companies need you to have them. Recruiters find you if you have them. People pay you if you have them.
Note: Changing technologies also require that you update existing skills, and and new ones!
This makes for a simple equation. The faster technologies change, the more often you should plan on a skills refresh. You may see these processes described as “skilling up” or “reskilling.”
Skilling Up
In this scenario, your existing skills are still relevant. You’ll still want to “maintain” those. But you’ll need to add some new ones as well.
Reskilling
In this scenario, some of your existing skills are no longer relevant. You’ll let those go, in favor of learning some other skills instead.
When you consider the empowerment that comes with skills mastery, it is easy to understand skills acquisition as a gift to yourself. That’s what Udacity Discovery Week is all about.
Udacity Discovery Week
Discovery Week is an unprecedented opportunity to enjoy significant savings on Udacity Nanodegree programs. Each Nanodegree program we offer is explicitly designed to provide you with the means to master important and valuable skills, and set yourself on a path towards meaningful career advancement.
We try to make the connection between learning and jobs as direct—and as meaningful—as possible. We work closely with our 50+ hiring partners to ensure that our programs always focus on the most important skills, tools, and technologies.
Lifelong Learning
Skilling up and reskilling are examples of lifelong learning in action. Success in today’s world necessitates being a lifelong learner. Today’s world of work rewards a lifelong learner. Nanodegree progams are made for lifelong learners.
Discovery Week is made for lifelong learners. Sound like you? Then treat yourself to new skills, advance your career, and save! Enroll between July 20–27.
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This post was written by Christopher Watkins, Senior Writer and Chief Words Officer, Udacity
