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Sharpen The Axe
By: Abhishek Shah
Tags: Busy Life, Efficiency, Development, Skills, Sharpening

Once upon a time, a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so was the work condition. For those reasons, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.

His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he supposed to work.

The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees.

“Congratulations,” the boss said. “Go on that way!”

Very motivated by the boss words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he could only bring 15 trees. The third day he tried even harder, but he could only bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and fewer trees.

“I must be losing my strength”, the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.

“When was the last time you sharpened your axe?” the boss asked.

“Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees…”

Moral of the story
Instantly 10X your Public Speaking Skills
Tags: Sales, Public Speaking, Presenting Skills, Skills, Presenting

1) Prime your Physiology

Not doing so leaves 93% of your communicative tools on the table.

Albert Mehrabian’s research gave birth to the 7–38–55 rule. A concept concerning the communication of emotions.

The rule states that 7 percent of meaning is communicated through spoken word, 38 percent through tone of voice, and 55 percent through body language.

So experts seem to think that the spoken word doesn’t even make a 1/10th of what is actually transmitted through communication.

There are obvious benefits of sending more blood and oxygen into the brain. However, most if not all humans get a little anxious before public speaking.

Anxiety can be seen as excess energy you don’t know what to do with. If you think of this anxiety as excitement rather than fear, well, you can channel it out of your mind and into your tone and body language in a positive way.

So try some light exercise beforehand to achieve this.

2) Quit Memorizing

A true presenter treasures the relationship they have with the audience. It’s a give-and-take relationship. But in order for this to happen, you have to be able to listen.

Most of the time, there will be dead silence, which is actually a good thing. If you hear shuffling and murmurs, attention certainly isn’t on you.

You won’t be able to read your audience if you’re simply regurgitating a memorized monologue. Generic and inattentive to the unique individuals in front of you.

Get your framework aligned well beforehand, but don’t clog up your working memory.

Leaving cognitive space for attentively and intentionally responding to your audience will take you much further towards an authentic connection.

3) Solidify your Personal Truth

Chances are, the audience or those on the other side of your zoom call are there for a reason. If you don’t have a very firm understanding of what that is, it only gets watered down by the time the transferring attempt is made.

A little self-hypnosis here can go a long way.

“What is most personal is most universal.” ― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy

Remind yourself that each individual making up your audience is hungry for a relationship, which can also be a product or service, that they never had the luxury of having.

Maybe they look around at their five closest friends and know that they are not like themselves. And they absolutely, more than anything, need a paradigm shift in order to take action towards positive momentum in their lives or work.

We all have those things that we know about ourselves and those things determine the outcomes of our life. And it comes when the pressure is on.

If your personal truth is, I’m not as smart as these people, I’m not as good as these others. This isn’t me. That’s gonna come out because 93 percent of your communications are nonverbal. So your personal truth is going to scream who you really believe you are.
Does going to school really lead to success?
By: Anoushka Jolly
Tags: Schools, Success, Skills, Hard Work

Richard Branson. Johnny Depp. I’m sure you have heard of those names. They are famous, successful men who have accomplished so much in their lifetime. But where did they all begin. What are their qualifications or where were they even educated? You will be surprised to know that both Richard Branson and Johnny Depp dropped out of school early. However that didn’t stop them from being successful. What I’m trying to convey here is that education is definitely important but skill is even more important. If Johnny Depp didn’t have any enhanced skills, he wouldn’t be what he is today. A lot of people believe that if you get good grades in school, you will be very successful in life. There is no proper justification of that theory. If you do not get great grades in school, it will not impact you/your life in any huge way. Let’s take an example of Simon Cowell. Simon hardly passed any exams and eventually dropped out at the age of 16. Today, Simon is a very successful person and is worth millions of dollars! That is a clear evidence of the fact that grades in school/college don’t affect your life completely!

Well, if school isn’t the success mantra, then what is?

I believe that the true mantra of success is working hard. “Success only comes before work in the dictionary.”

Richard Branson didn’t just drop out of school and get successful. He worked hard and only then he was appreciated for his work. The only thing that matters when you want to achieve something is to be hardworking/consistent. Whether it’s something as small as learning how to whistle or something as big as learning how to drive a car! If you are committed to something, it doesn’t matter if you achieve that or not. You are the most successful if you can work hard. If you can live by the success mantra.

School is not necessary to achieve something in life but it teaches you a lot of lessons which you can’t learn outside of it. School teaches you discipline, punctuality, and most importantly, it teaches you how to adapt and communicate with others around you. While there are many people who were successful without school, there are lot’s of people who weren’t. To be on the safe side, it’s essential for young minds to keep learning.

In conclusion, school isn’t the success mantra but you cannot be successful if you don’t work hard.
อีก 3 สิ่งที่พนักงานในโลกยุคอนาคตต้องมีเพิ่ม
By: Pawit Nopparuch
Tags: Disruption, Team Management, Innovation, Skill

Experience designer who passion in exploring new business model, new value proposition that will truly become the new innovation
What Is a Good Business Leader’s Most Critical Leadership Skill?
By: Mike Schoultz
Tags: Leadership, Curiosity, Skills

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

- Stephen Hawking

While we may debate the most important skill of a good business leader, certainly a critical skill is curiosity. That is, demonstrating curiosity and inspiring and cultivating the natural curiosity in your staff. Ineffective business leaders are the ones who have lost their passion and curiosity for their subject or even for their job.

You can’t fake curiosity and passion. The best leaders are the ones who show their passion to continuously learn more about their subject. They are not afraid to show mistakes or admit that they don’t know it all. They continuously seek to experiment with new ideas.

The best leaders guide, coach, inspire and feed that natural flame of curiosity and exploration that lives within every employee. The courage to lead, then, is the courage to expose yourself as you demonstrate your curiosity and passion for business subjects. This kind of passion is both infectious and memorable.

The openness to show your natural curiosity in front of others requires one to be vulnerable. Passionate curiosity demonstrates many things to others, including that we don’t know all the answers or even that we are uncertain about various things. Be curious and never fear your vulnerability.

Become the leader and coach who lights the sparks and inspires those around you to pursue curiosity, exploration, and discovery.
Here are some of the challenges of working for an online news site
By: Kazi Mahmood
Tags: Challenge, Malaysia, Online News, Skills, Singapore

There is always a challenge working in the journalism industry, but the challenge is bigger if you are working for a news portal like The Independent.

The name of the game is, if you can’t shape up to the demands of the portal, you better ship out.

I have been with the Independent since 2016, writing freelance, and I joined the publication as a full-time editor/writer in 2018.

After a brief hiatus, during which I was sharpening some of my online skills, I came back to work for the company.

There are a lot of reasons behind the choice I made in September when the opportunity to run the foreign affairs desk came to me.

First is the personal relationship with the company chief, who is a friend of mine. I have known Mr Kumaran Pillai for over five years now. Our friendship started when he joined TOC as the Chief Editor.

In 2016, he joined WorldFuture in our event on the South China Sea conflict held at the Sime Darby Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur.

This was the start of my collaboration with TISG.

Second, there is the credibility of the company. TISG never missed a payment, albeit a bit of delay because of the vagaries that come with the publishing business.

The Independent has made it in a big way in the business. It is a stable company with strong growth potential. Unlike other news portals or newspapers, TISG is benefiting largely from the IT skills and management knowledge of the founder, Kumaran.

Third, one has to look closely before taking a challenge with an online news business. The big question is whether the site is viable.

BIGGEST CHALLENGES

Personally, I am a big fan of TISG. I like the simple design and the freedom the writers enjoy. But, as I said above, there are also challenges.

One of the biggest challenges is to work with people who have low-IT skills and a lack of understanding of the disruption that is still shaking the news industry.

When you have some people with both impediments, it becomes a predicament for the portal.

I understand Mr Kumaran had to deal with a few nut cases during the nascent days of TISG. But I believe these days are behind us.

As well as the days when we, the TISG, were doing the job of a blog because since 2018 we are behaving like a professional news site.

Mr Kumaran took the advice of his collaborators — I included — to revamp the editorial side of the portal. We now have proper Sub Editors who slash through the articles from the writers.

But we are moving even further in the transformation plan. We plan to have section heads, and that is why I am the head of the Foreign Desk.

In the process, I am also helping with the Entertainment desk, which is a growing segment of the TISG family.

Now, the question is whether TISG is a news portal or a blog? I believe we are no more a blog space.

We have editorialists; we have specific columns and we have a lot of news items. We also have an international portal, which I believe will grow into a bigger site than TISG.
why did you leave tcs
By: Ecom Trp
Tags: Jobs, Jobs To Be Done, Tcs, Skills, Business

I left TCS one and a half weeks back in the middle of November after having worked with them for the last two years. I was planning to leave TCS actually for quite some time now since the work I did there hardly had any value and I wasn’t growing anyway.

So making the most use of the lockdown, I started to upskill myself by taking up online trainings and Certification exams and finally dropped my resignation in August once I got a new job.

There were many reasons why I decided to call it quits. It always pained me since my leaves were not getting approved; I could only use 9 leaves during my 2 years tenure. The micromanagement was on another level and the work that I was doing was useless. But probably the most important factor that triggered me was salary and the negligible pay hike. Its true that I was already being paid double than my colleagues as I was in TCS Digital but I knew I deserved more. The technology I worked in paid much more elsewhere so I knew TCS wasn’t the right place to be in

So I waited for two years, learning stuffs by myself because the project work hardly helped to learn anything and then made my switch. I wasn’t happy with the work culture in my project basically and there was absolutely no rewards for hardwork, to put it in a single sentence. And when you stop getting appreciated or paid properly for the work you do, you either stop working or you find a way out.

I chose the second road, the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.

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Formação, Profissão, Carreira: O Adventure Game em que o herói é você
By: Clovis Chedid
Tags: Cientista De Dados, Skills, Mercado De Trabalho, Engenheiro De Dados, Carreira

An electrical engineer working with IT stuff, since ever. For many years, I worked as enterprise architect, but now, I’m make my way in Data Engineering.
5 Soft Skills Every Designer should have in 2021.
By: Sam Maiyaki
Tags: Storytelling, Branding, Innovation, Teamwork, Skills

5 Soft Skills Every Designer should have in 2021.

This involves approaching a design problem by incorporating creative thinking to proffer a solution. Generate lots of ideas. For example, when designing a Logo, produce at least 3 variations for the project. Out of which you select the best of the best as your final design.

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Collaboration

Build a community around everything. The best Projects are delivered by a team and not an individual. Your ability to collaborate with others whether

other creatives or stakeholders on a Project is a vital skill. Collaboration requires excellent communication skills. To collaborate better, Learn to give constructive feedback to people you are working with, this will help you get the most creative outcomes.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is necessary because most designs are created to dictate certain emotional responses. As a Professional Graphic Designer, you need to have a considerable understanding of human psychology. A Sound understanding of this helps you communicate through your designs better, collaborate with teams better, and give feedback.

Growth Mentality

Approach every design problem with an ingrain the idea that there is always room for more. Any given design can be made better even in its final form. Ideas are progressive. Hence, you can come up with ideas that haven’t been explored.

Story Telling

It takes a great deal of mastery to create designs that tell stories. Your designs must tell a story that causes your audience to react emotionally and in turn, prompt them to take action.

There you have it! Five skills you must have as a designer in 2021.
10 Important Skills everybody should learn in their life
By: Steph Up
Tags: Self Improvement, Life, Life Lessons, Self Development, Skills

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Learning the essential or even the most basic life skills can help us not only live a better life but also help us become more successful at everything that we do as it basically improves all areas of our life.

These Life skills that are listed below have the ability to make us deal and adapt effectively to the demands and challenges of our everyday life, so it is important to develop and take the initiative to learn these skills.

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1. Self- Discipline — having self-discipline in oneself is the key to success in any field. It helps us keep going.

If a person is disciplined in areas of their life whether it might be from health, career, business, relationships or finances they will always find a way to control their bad habits and consistently overcome any obstacles that come their way, that instead of feeling negative and giving up quickly, they would find a way change what went wrong in their plans which in turn would help them accomplish their goals.

When you lack this certain skill, other aspects of your life will struggle. So start by planning your day that consists of good habits and do it consistently, then you will start to see the results of being more disciplined as the day goes by.
¿Cómo utilizar Quick Link para tu Skill de Alexa?
By: Javi Mora Díaz
Tags: Alexa Skills, Voice Assistant, Skills, Voice Interfaces, Alexa

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The Devil’s Dilemma of Education
By: Natalija Counet
Tags: Covid 19, Jobs, Skills, Sustainability, Education

Who doesn’t want the skills he learns to be future proof? Our education system should prepare us for the future, right? At the same time it needs to make us relevant for the jobs available today. At times, educators have a real devil’s dilemma: teachning skills for needs of today vs promises and ambitions of tomorrow. In my work I come often across it quite often.

Slow transitions

The good example is mobility. It is possible that electric, hybrid and hydrogen cars are the future of mobility. In 2019 we had 315 thousand electric of hybrid cars in the Netherlands. At the same time we have more than 8,1 million diesel and petrol cars on our roads. There is no doubt that the amount of hybrid and electric cars in the future is going to grow. So you want to have specialists that are able to repair those cars. At the same time 95% of all cars still driving and that means 95% of work at the moment is in repairing diesel and petrol cars.

Jobs of the future

Or examples from our sustainability ambitions. The CO2 reduction is only impossible if we transition to using alternative energy sources. So in the future, we will, for example, need thousands of skilful solar panel fitters for our houses and offices. It is the demand we can see coming. Job of the future, one might say. However, at the moment due to environment policies in the Netherlands and other reasons, there are not enough assignments for that profession. So educating for the job of the future might result in no job in the present.

Covid-19 dilemma

Let’s take even more recent example. COVID-19 has a dramatic effect on possibility to find a job in sectors like aviation, hospitaly and the cultural sector at the moment. Different education institutions are seriously concerned about the chances of their graduates in getting a job. They consider making changes in their education programs and reskilling their students to more promising and demanded professions. However, as COVID 19 will be defeated, we will need much of that talent back: for museums, expositions, concerts, travelling, flying to vacations and going out with friends and family.

The devil’s dillemma of educators is at times having to make choices between today and tomorrow. The big question that puzzle many in my field of work: how do provide the education that combines both?
Are You An Effective Communicator?
Tags: Communication, Life Lessons, Audience Engagement, Skills, 100 Days Writing

Day 15/100

Communication…this is one word you read about and hear everyday in this digital age. And the importance of this single word is not over stated. In this age, if you can grab the attention of your reader, half your work is done. And therefore, everyone is on the lookout on means of effective communication. There are master classes, tutorials, YouTube videos, Pinterest and blog posts — its everywhere. But, can communication be learnt? Maybe.

I have attended workshops where I’ve seen hosts holding the attention of listeners for over two hours! It’s in their voice, their energy, their story that engages you. Some say that your tone determines all. While others drum in the value of content. Even if it is fictitious and your audience knows it, they still listen you out because it’s delivered so well!!

Recently, I was listening to a podcast by Ronnie Screwvala where he was talking about his book, Dreaming With Your Eyes Open. He said that communication is effective only when your recipient has understood what you’ve conveyed. Simply getting over a talk and ticking it off your list cannot be referred to as communication. In today’s age, the toughest thing is to catch the attention of your audience because he/she always gets back to checking their phone the minute your conversation drags. So you have to be very careful to understand your audience, their needs and should not meander, unless it’s a discussion which requires a lot of moving back and forth.

Another important aspect of communication that is very crucial is grammar. Yes, you read that right. When someone speaks incorrect English, no matter how knowledgeable, their conversation is a put off. You don’t need to use big words; simple correct sentences go a long way. Again some people have a habit of repeating a word throughout a presentation..for instance, it could be 'I mean’, 'actually' or anything. Ugh! You completely switch off in such situations.

So, there’s no one rule to good communication. Each one has their own way to express-- some sing, some tell stories, some narrate incidents, some make voice modulations….anything that can reach your audience and they leave wanting to come back, is good enough. I suggest not to emulate anyone; be yourself-- you can definitely express better.

What’s your mantra for effective communication?
How to Break Your Brain
By: Princess Carrie Graham
Tags: Web Design, Self Employed, Skills, WordPress, Cloud

How to Break Your Brain

Wow,

I feel like I’m having a hard time catching up.

I bought a server thingie, kinda. And I’m learning stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. SEO. Web server administration. SQL. There is no curve to my learning right now — it’s all vertical. This is me seriously upping my geek game so that my never-ending anxiety about whether I’ll have a place in this post-pandemic world has something to do with itself. Otherwise the not-sleeping-mice chew through the floorboards and leave unpaid bills to perform mitosis in the dim corners of my unquiet mind.

I’ll have more web real estate to hang decorations for other people’s stuff once I learn more about how to manage my own. Yes, that existential metaphor was entirely intended.

In short (giggle — right, I’m so known for brevity) I’m busy. So I’m not writing — and when I’m done busying, I’ll write about what I busied about. In the meantime I’m attempting to mount three new domains on a self-managed server using WordPress technology. I’m hoping my brain doesn’t break, although that ship may have sailed in grade six.

The lengths I’ll go to in order to pandemic-proof my life, I’m coming to realize, are quite extraordinary. I am fortunate enough to live in a country and province that will invest in a proper skills assessment and, according to the brain-watchers with the government, I’m apparently smart enough to pull this off.

So I’m going to get about that and publish more once I figure out what needs to be done in order to not break what is already done. Off with me, then…
An Open Letter to Anyone Who’s Struggling to Get Ahead
By: Daniel P. Donovan
Tags: Self Improvement, Personal Growth, Remote Working, Skills, Personal Development

An Open Letter to Anyone Who’s Struggling to Get Ahead

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

If you’re struggling to get ahead in life.

Here’s an idea:

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Don’t just sit there and hope for something better. That rarely, if ever, works. It’s like sitting in front of a fireplace hoping for heat but never actually adding any wood.

In other words, it ain’t gonna happen, partner.

Instead, you need to take action and try something new. You have to work every day on something that helps to move you forward.

The good news is that in today’s day and age, doing that has never been easier.

Within minutes, you can start learning a new skill you could do from anywhere in the world. And over the course of a year (months, even) get proficient enough to start making pretty good money doing it.

But you have to commit to something first.

You have to want it.

You have to push yourself to get better at it every day.

It’s not hard, either.

For example, here’s a simple path you could follow:

Wake up an hour earlier than you do right now. Use that hour to study a location independent skill. Practice the fundamentals every day. Add your samples/examples to a portfolio. Create a profile on Upwork and start bidding for jobs.

Within a week, you could land your first client.

Within a month, you could land even more.

And within a year, you could feel proficient enough to quit your day job and really make a go at it.

It really is that easy.

And that’s just one of the potential options you could try.

So if you’re not where you want to be…

If you don’t have the lifestyle you want to have…

If you lose sleep at night thinking about all the overdue bills and debt that keeps piling up…

Pull up your socks and figure it the fuck out.

The only excuse you have is the one you let yourself believe.
8 Skill yang Harus Dimiliki Mahasiswa Sebelum Masuk Dunia Kerja
By: Gööp Kampus
Tags: Mahasiswa, Indonesia, Lowongan Kerja, Skills, Wisuda

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Le top des carrières en 2021: Les emplois les plus demandés après COVID-19
By: Soufiane Soubella
Tags: Hiring, Covid 19, Careers, Jobs, Skills

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Technical Tutorials: Halftone/Duotone.
By: Suki Studio
Tags: Duotone, Photoshop, Design, Skills, Pop Art

Technical Tutorials — Halftone/Duotone.

This weeks technical tutorials with Tony/Koray had been particularly useful as it was just in time for me to learn about creating halftone and duotones for my own editorial using secondary images. For my magazine, Womanish, since I had not been able to create primary assets and a lot of the topic I’m analysing relies on the work of others, this means I’d be using a lot of secondary images, however, to somehow make these my own and fitting to the aesthetic and identity of my editorial, the design which is, halftone or duotone is a good photo-editing technique.

The tutorial had been pretty simple as Koray had begun by showing us how to create the halftone effect which is essentially what the art movement, Pop Art consists of. The first way around it was as simple as experimenting with the filter gallery and sizing of the dots/circles, where you can also play around with the radius and angles etc. Once done, you are able to colourise the effect using a clipping mask. Another way to get this effect which gives a much better and more detailed outcome is again to visit the filter options, select pixelate and then selecting halftone, this way had picked up more details in the original image and looked a lot better and closer to the aesthetic I’m intending to go for, and I’m looking forward to trying it out myself.

Another technique we were shown was duotone which again, I plan to use as a running aesthetic in my editorial. This however, would be the first step before adding the halftone effect above it. Duotone effect simply requires selecting gradient map, then add colour. Once more, Koray had shown a more complicated way of getting this effect that overall, did look better and this was to go under the channels tab, select one of the RGB layers that balance the shadows and highlights of the original image well, to copy this effect into the original layers/picture tab and then it is a matter of adjusting. Under layers, select adjustments, select a solid colour for the highlights of the image, once again select the original image to add another colour fill but this time for the shadows, and to make sure to go for a complimentary colour scheme.

Below is an image of model, Bella Hadid that I had sourced from Pinterest that related to the overall topic (Gender Discussion) of my magazine that I had practised these new skills on:

Some attempts at both halftone and duotone.

(27.11.20)
What is true growth?: Creator’s edition
By: Amey Karhade
Tags: Creator To Creator, Creators, Growth, Skills, Skills Development

Being a creator, it’s very easy to constantly think about the numbers and analytics to get a sense of growth. Though in recent times it was less for me when it came to Youtube but the sense of growth was something I couldn’t feel. There was an increase of 2–3 subscribers per video, But my video making wasn’t getting any better.

Last week I had a long call with a friend/mentor where I asked her how should I grow? And she gave importance to this one point:

If you want to have goals think of something which is all under your control.

Having the goal of getting a certain number of followers is very vague and in that scenario, you are still dependent on an entity that is the audience. The result is under your control only when you control the minds of the audience. And unless you are a hypnotist you can’t do that.

So what can you do?

You can have goals that only you have full control over. And in the creator’s life that only thing is his/her content. You have full control over it. Then why not have a goal that says “I won’t miss a day of upload!” or “ I would create a creator’s lifestyle where I’ll write down one idea every day!”. The possibilities and goals are endless.

I personally had failed to understand the true meaning of growth. Subscribers and followers are also the signs of growth, no doubt, But that is not true progress. True progress is the skill that you display in front of the audience. Gaining credibility to your name through your work is anytime better than having more followers because we all know how easy it is to gain followers if that’s all we want.

I always had this sense of being true to my skill and that’s why never used the wrong ways to get followers. It’s just that humans are never satisfied with what they have and Hi! I am human! when I crossed certain goals I always made the next ones. I was not aware that after some time it’s not about the number. What’s the point of the followers if you don’t grow your skills?

So the new goal!

Be the best at what I do and be consistent with it! Keep on Challenging my skills!

As a creator, this is by far the most important mindset change that I have faced. And all thanks to the people around me that made me realize it!
New Tool Matches Skills to the World’s Most Popular Jobs
By: Unique Content
Tags: Jobs, Interactive, Employment, Skills

With the jobs market undergoing unprecedented changes amid a global pandemic, it’s becoming increasingly important for candidates seeking a new career to find ways to stand out from the crowd.

One of the ways job hunters can go about differentiating themselves from the competition is to ensure they can demonstrate the most in-demand skills for the role they’re applying for. To help with this, leading social learning platform FutureLearn have launched a new interactive tool, matching skills to the most popular jobs in the UK and internationally:

Using a year of Google Search data to find the most in-demand jobs, FutureLearn then looked at scores of job descriptions across a number of vacancies to find the most commonly mentioned key skills for those roles. The result is an elegant and intuitive interactive tool, allowing users to see what skills they will need to apply for (and thrive in) the most popular job roles.

Given the impact the Coronavirus outbreak has had on the labour market, both in the UK and globally, the tool couldn’t be better timed. According to UK Government statistics, the number of people claiming unemployment benefit rose by 1.5 million between March and September 2020, with an astonishing 9.6 million people furloughed through the Job Retention Scheme by midnight on October 18th, 2020.

The pandemic has also had a major impact on young people, with the ONS reporting that 14.6% of economically active 16–24 year olds now unemployed, compared with 4.8% of the UK population as a whole. In October, 156,000 fewer people in this age group were employed in the UK, compared to the previous three months.

Catalina Schveninger, Chief People Officer at FutureLearn, said:

This year has been one of the most challenging for professionals of all backgrounds, especially the millions whose career paths have been disrupted or redirected by the pandemic. That’s why at FutureLearn we’re proud to launch our new skills matcher tool. Using data-driven insights alongside FutureLearn’s broad portfolio of expert-led, career-focussed courses, we hope this new tool will provide clarity and support for those looking to gain valuable employment insights as well as the skills needed to enter high-demand roles in areas such as graphic design, teaching, nursing and more.

You can view the full interactive tool on the FutureLearn website.
Recognise What Skills You Have
By: Marcus Bazley
Tags: Work, Arts And Culture, Personal Development, Skills

It’s very easy when you are working in the arts, where jobs are often short term, self-generated and poorly paid, to recognise that amount you have achieved and the skills you have developed.

Every now and then, in particular at a time like this, it is worthwhile looking at your skills and your achievements from a non-arts perspective. You have to be in the right frame of mind for this, otherwise you can end up like me a few weeks ago, where I essentially wrote — “I’ve wasted years of my life and achieved nothing!” But when you approach this with more detachment and self-love (!), you will recognise that you’ve actually achieved an awful lot and demonstrated a hugely valuable and varied set of skills.

Try to detach your skills from the immediate job that you do and describe them in transferable terms. For example, when I say I’m a theatre director to someone not in the theatre industry, the most common response is: “At which theatre?” To which I have to politely explain that I don’t director a theatre building, I direct the productions that go into those theatres, which entails (amongst other things): recruiting and building a team; creating a shared vision for that team; empowering the team to make creative and innovative decisions; building an environment of trust, respect and support; managing budgets and timelines; liaising with multiple departments; managing expectations; managing people with sensitivity; interpreting text; identifying patterns and themes; managing a project from initial idea, through experimentation and testing, to delivery. I could go on and on. And when you list what you do like this, you suddenly realise just how much you are capable of and how valuable your skills are.

And what I’ve done there is just for directing. Most of us in the arts have many job titles on the go at once. Director, Actor, Dramaturg, Coach, Facilitator, Company Director, Workshop Leader, Social Media Manager, Poster Designer, Copywriter, Editor, Blogger.

So, at this time when the arts feel so undervalued and under-supported, just remember that you are incredibly highly skilled. What you do is incredibly difficult and requires a great deal of self-motivation and resilience. Take a moment to be proud of your skillsets and of your achievements.
Iran-backed Houthis are behind Yemen’s problems: Saudi FM
By: Desert Talks
Tags: Houthis, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan. (File photo: Reuters)

The Iran-backed Houthi militia stands behind Yemen’s problems, said Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Friday.

The Houthis took Yemen’s capital in 2014 and have been engaged in conflict with the internationally recognized government and the Arab Coalition since.

Prince Faisal noted that the Houthis have launched hundreds of rocket and drone attacks against Saudi Arabia from Yemeni territory.

The minister also addressed the broader issue of extremism, saying that the Kingdom condemned the violation of religious symbols and called for tolerance. He added that the Islamic world had suffered from terrorism and was continuing to address the issue.

OIC foreign ministers

Prince Faisal was speaking at the 47th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, organized by the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and hosted by the Republic of Niger in the capital, Niamey.

The session brought together foreign ministers from across the Islamic world to discuss issues including the fight against extremism, the Palestinian and Rohinya causes, and a range of other humanitarian issues.

The session is being chaired by OIC Secretary-General Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen.
İran’ın Sıcak Denizleri I: Bağdat
Tags: Iran, Irak, Bağdat, Şii Hilali, Politika

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US President Donald Trump warned Wednesday he might preserve “Iran responsible” withinside the…
Tags: Us, Iran, Trump

US President Donald Trump warned Wednesday he might preserve “Iran responsible” withinside the occasion of a deadly assault on Americans in Iraq, because the first anniversary of the killing of a pinnacle Iranian trendy in a US air strike approaches.

“Our embassy in Baghdad were given hit Sunday with the aid of using numerous rockets,” Trump stated on Twitter, regarding an assault that triggered harm however no deaths.

“Guess in which they got here from: IRAN,” he added. “Now we pay attention chatter of extra assaults towards Americans in Iraq,” he added, earlier than offering “a few pleasant fitness recommendation to Iran: if one American is killed, I will preserve Iran responsible. Think it over,” he stated.

Responding to Trump, the Iranian overseas minister Mohammad Javid Zarif tweeted on Thursday: “Putting your very own residents at chance overseas won’t divert interest from catastrophic screw ups at home.”

He additionally connected an picture of years-antique Trump tweets that claimed ex-president Barack Obama might have commenced a conflict with Iran to win re-election, in addition to a screengrab of a graph that purported to reveal the severity of the coronavirus pandemic withinside the US.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had already pointed the finger at Tehran, at the same time as the United States navy command that covers the area stated that the rocket assault “became nearly clearly performed with the aid of using an Iranian-sponsored rogue military group.”

It stated in a declaration that at the same time as it “triggered no US accidents or casualties, the assault did harm homes withinside the US embassy compound, and became absolutely NOT meant to keep away from casualties.”

“The United States will preserve Iran responsible for the deaths of any Americans that end result from the paintings of those Iranian-sponsored rogue military groups,” it added.

Iran had in advance answered with the aid of using calling on US government on Monday now no longer to provoke “tensions.”

Trump ordered the drone assault on January 3, 2020 to kill the effective Iranian trendy at the same time as he became in Baghdad. The air strike got here after Iranian-sponsored militias had fired rockets at US goals in Iraq, in a situation echoed with the aid of using the cutting-edge moves towards the United States embassy
Reaction from Washington to Iranian threats: ready to respond, if necessary
By: Robert Jones
Tags: Iran, United States

The head of U.S. forces in the Middle East warned Iran on Sunday that Washington was prepared to strike back in the event that the Islamic Republic struck it as an act of revenge to mark the first anniversary of the death of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed earlier this year in a U.S. air strike.General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), told reporters, “We are ready to defend ourselves, our friends and partners in the region, and, if necessary, we are ready to react.”

McKenzie made a secret visit to the area to tour around and examine the situation as it was just a few weeks left before the death anniversary of Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike near the Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020.Since that attack, tensions have been on the rise between Iran and the US. But the US put up its guard weeks ahead of the incident, as Tehran vowed last month to avenge both the killing of Suleimani and the murder of its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed in November.

Iran has launched several attacks against US forces in Iraq, the most recent of which took place on Sunday, when rockets targeted the US embassy in Baghdad. According to Iraqi security forces, however, the blast only caused material damage and no casualties. This was the third attack on the US military and diplomatic base in Iraq, amid an indefinite ceasefire agreement signed in October between the US and pro-Iranian forces.

“McKenzie, four-star marine general, said in a telephone media briefing held from an undisclosed location, “My opinion is that we are in a very strong position and we will be prepared for whatever the Iranians or their proxies who work for them will want to do.

As a preparatory move, the US navy announced that a nuclear-powered, guided-missile submarine had been deployed to the Arabian Gulf to battle Iran in the event of an attack by the latter. The navy confirmed that two guided-missile launchers accompanied the USS Georgia submarine: the USS Port Royal and the USS Philippine Sea in the Hormuz Strait.

“The presence of Georgia in the US 5th Fleet area of operations demonstrates the ability of the US Navy to sail and operate wherever permitted by international law,” the Navy said. “The presence of Georgia as an inherently flexible manoeuvring force capable of supporting routine and contingency operations demonstrates the commitment of the United States to regional partners and maritime security with a full spectrum of capabilities to remain ready at all times to defend against any threat.”
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Tags: Iran

here is an old building, have been used as residential for the local leaders in west of Iran about 400 years ago.
Feminists Move to Iran to Escape Patriarchy
By: Planet X Media
Tags: News, Feminism, Iran, Sapir Whorf Hypothesis, Patriarchy

IRAN — A movement (no pun intended) has taken many Feminists by storm. It is called “Fexit” and encourages true Feminists to move to Iran in order to escape the terror of the patriarchy.

“Well, the main reason we moved was because we heard the language they speak there (Spanish, I think?) Yeah, it has no words for ‘he’ or ‘she’. There’s a word like ‘it’, but no gender distinction in the entire language. We read a book on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and were convinced there would be no gender distinction in Iran’s culture because of the language, you know? Finally, a place where men and women are equal, amirite?” said one of the main proponents of the movement.

“Were there any other reasons why we moved? No, not really. But I mean, come on, anyplace must be better for women than in the US,” she added. “Plus, their lack of gendered pronouns probably means they’re hundreds of years ahead of the US, because we still haven’t solved sexism here anyway.”

Sources confirm the 78,000 women who immigrated to Iran last week were last seen in a concentration camp in Iran’s capitol, Tehran, yesterday.
The Iranian president called Trump a “terrorist.”
Tags: News, Iran, Blog, USA, Hassan Rouhani

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called outgoing US President Donald Trump a “terrorist.”

“While we are not overjoyed at Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election, I am glad to hear that the country’s ‘terrorist’ President Donald Trump has stepped down,” he said.

Hassan Rouhani made the remarks in a speech to the country’s cabinet on Wednesday. News from IRNA and Jakarta Post.

The Iranian president said Trump had illegally imposed sanctions on various countries and run the country in a terrorist manner.

In the November 3 US presidential election, Republican leader Donald Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump has been using various tricks to stay in power without accepting defeat in the election. On December 14, the Electoral College of the United States officially declared Biden the winner. Joe Biden will take over as the 47th President of the United States on January 20.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was also present at the cabinet meeting. News of his illness had been circulating for several days. But he attended the cabinet meeting on Wednesday and dismissed the news of his illness as a rumor.

Khamenei addressed the cabinet on the first anniversary of the death of Iran’s top military commander, Qasim Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad.

The 81-year-old top religious leader was seen attending the meeting after the mask. Rumors have been circulating for several days that he is retiring due to illness. Several Arab media outlets have reported that he is going to give the responsibility to his son instead. Khamenei dismissed the rumors from attending the meeting.

In fact, since 1989, the Iranian people have recognized Khamenei as the supreme religious leader.
“The Idea of “Great Iran” is a Threat You’ll Never Expected”
By: William Black
Tags: Militias, Iran, Great Iran, Threat, Aggression

Iran clings to the idea that by deploying its militias, which participate in terrorism and control the political affairs of many nations, it could become a great force. With Iran’s military generals imminently rising to the highest position in the country’s political structure, Tehran’s militias will inevitably gain additional support and momentum, allowing the regime to strengthen its hold on the countries it is threatening.

As a result, Iran aims to create a massive militia-controlled terrorist state that stretches beyond national-state borders, creating total allegiance to the government, rather than ideological persuasion, based on aggression, terror, and fear. Iran has had some impact on the ground, but it can only leverage it in countries with a political vacuum, or whose government has been compromised by terrorism. However, there is no question that this stage is temporary and has to come to an end. For any extended period of time, it is impossible to run the Hezbollah model in other nations because people prefer to gravitate towards their own real identities.