Conscious Career – Day 15
Conscious Career Day 15
by Angela Loeb
What else can you do besides what others in your field can do? In other words, how do you stand out?
You have career assets, and these include your skills, knowledge and experience, as well as your natural talents.
Determining your skills might be the easiest place to start. Skills are those things you can do that very likely required some sort of training. According to the dictionary, a skill is “proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience.” Learning to read, learning to type, learning to use a software program on a computer… these are all learned, applied skills.
On the other hand, talents are innate. The dictionary defines talent as “a marked innate ability, natural endowment or ability of a superior quality.” If you’re like most people, it’s hard to step back and look at yourself from an objective point of view and determine what your natural talents are. Why? Because your natural talents were always there, even as a child, and you probably take them for granted since they are such a part of you. Think about the things which come very easily to you. You might even have trouble understanding why something that seems so easy to you is hard for someone else.
It’s important to distinguish skills from natural talent. Having a knack for picking up computer programming languages isn’t the same as having the learned skill itself, especially when you have to keep receiving training on the latest and greatest language in demand.
