5 Skills you should learn during lockdown

             Now, you have a choice during the lockdown we're all staying home and now you have a lot more free time, now you have two choices you could either waste your time or you could choose to invest that time to do/learn something productive.

                  And I think one of the most productive things to do is to “Learn A Skillset” Because which this thing is over and it will be over, It’s only a matter of time the world will start spinning again. What are you gonna do,  right? Maybe you're a little bit concerned, maybe you have unfortunately lost your job. But when things get back to normal you will go out there and get a new job. Are you ready, Are you prepared?

                  Because things are different now. Things have changed. Industries have changed. The world has changed. So are you ready, are you prepared to go after that opportunity? Or maybe go after the other job which you’ve always wanted or maybe go start that new business. Whatever you want to do after this crisis, what would allow you to do a lot of things, are your skills. I believe after this lockdown some of the most valuable skills that you could develop meet these 4 criteria

 

No 1: A skillset that has an immediate impact on your life

          Don’t choose a skill set that takes years to see any results but choose something that you could learn right now, and you could implement, something that is very very practical.

 

No 2: It doesn’t take you years to learn

          You don’t need to go back to school again for four years of education. Instead, you could learn these skillsets in months, or sometimes in a matter of weeks.

 

No 3: You could learn from the comfort of your own home

          You don’t need to go to any physical locations. You could learn this from your computer, just from your own home

 

No 4: You can learn at your own pace           

          Meaning if you want to binge-watch and binge learn, you could do that or you want to pace yourself, you want to learn it through a period of time may be over a number of days or number of weeks, in your spare time you could do that as well. So I believe skillset that meets these criteria is very valuable skillsets to learn.

 

So what are the 5 skills you should learn during lockdown:

               Now, you can pick any one of them, don’t try to go crazy and learn too many.

 

No 1: Coding Skill

          Code developers, Programmers, Software engineers will always be in demand especially with the virus after this is over, think about the companies. Forget the companies who couldn’t make it. But think about the companies who survive, if you were the business owner, what are you gonna do differently? Are you gonna take what you do and automate certain aspects of it, virtualize certain aspects of your business? Maybe you shut down completely your physical locations and just do it online. Things have changed, People learned. They will structure their business differently, You will structure your business and life differently.

       We learn from it, So what the coronavirus did is accelerate that process, it’s a trigger. What it means is that people who know HTML, PHP, CSS, they will be in demand. So if you have an interest, or you’re thinking about it coding skill is extremely valuable.

 

No 2 : Digital Marketing Skill  

        More businesses, more companies, if they have been doing some businesses online, they’ve been selling online now after this coronavirus they will be more motivated. Before it’s like nice to sell online and it’s nice to do social media promotions but now, It has become a basic necessity. Now it becomes the “new normal”.

         Businesses who have always been doing business offline, Now they’ll be thinking about restructuring there business model How could we take what we do and do it online

Ex: gyms are giving online fitness training, online classes for school students

So what it means if you know how to build a funnel, if you know how to generate traffic, you know how to do media buy, you know how to build a website. All those skillsets will be in high demand. It’s already high in demand. But the ones who are good you are always in demand. Even though

You may not be thinking of doing digital marketing for full time if you have that skill set, you can bring that on the table it adds so much more value to your resume.  

 

No 3 : Closing Skill

          The ability to close a product or services or in easy words to sell a product over the phone, or over the internet through ZOOM. Those are very valuable skills. With the coronavirus with this crisis, Companies are looking into the entire sales division. And saying oh my goodness we have all these salespeople. How could we outsource this, how could we have a remote sales team? Instead of a sales team with a physical location?

           How could we sell our products or services over the phone without a massive overhead? They are thinking differently, so if you have the ability to close the phone sales, if you have the ability to close products and services companies are willing to pay you a hefty commission when you can demonstrate that quality when you can demonstrate that you have that skill set.

       Closing will be one of the highest demand professions in the world because companies need revenue, they need salespeople, they need “skilful” salespeople. And they need them more than ever especially when things are coming back to normal, they need revenue and they need closers.

 

No 4 : Project Management Skill

           Now, Because of Zoom, People working remotely, Companies working remotely, Companies outsourcing with so many projects going on, that creates new demand for project managers, right. People who are able to manage different projects and get stuff done, Were talking about scrum, were talking about agile, were talking about various project management methodologies. With the complexity, with so many companies move more motivated than ever moving more to virtual, so guess what with project managers, or just people with project management skills, because now you will be working with people face to face and also be working with other people, other team members remotely. So this skill will be very useful doesn’t matter what it is that you do, doesn’t matter if your working for a company doesn’t matter if your working for yourself, this will be a valuable skill to add into your resume.

 

No 5 : Copywriting

           Every single social media post that you see, every single e-mail, every single ad, are done by copywriters. Companies that do any type of marketing, Companies that do any type of advertising they need a copywriter and they will always be needing copywriters.

           Because it’s not just one e-mail, it’s not just one page, it’s not just one article. In order to stand out in this noisy world, in this market place content marketing is extremely critical. They will need someone to write their script. Almost every single company out there, if they do any kind of online marketing at all, they will need a skilful copywriter and the beauty of copywriting is it has nothing to do with writing, it has to do with selling and closing, that’s why I call that closing in print. Copywriting is a learnable skill, it is transferable, it is sustainable, and it is doable.

 

These are the 5 skill sets that you should learn to utilize your lockdown.