Controversial opinion: Stop building your hard skills, it’s not going to land your dream job

Don’t get me wrong.

Hard skills are important.

There is professional value to knowing how to analyse data, create and launch marketing campaigns, design interfaces, write code, do financial modelling, make magic on Photoshop etc.

And while that might help get your foot in the door

It’s not going to get you hired.

Why? Because…

1. Hard skills can be taught, but soft skills? Much harder

Skills like financial modelling, or coding, etc. can easily be taught - and so much of what you’ll need can be learned on the job

(Think about it - how much of what you do today was actually learned on the job?)

But soft skills and values (e.g.: integrity, communicating with clarity, responsibility, motivation, passion etc.) are so much harder to instill

2. People hire people they want to work with

We spend so much of our lives at work - and when looking to hire a new candidate…

Would you rather spend 10 hours a day next to an asshole (who might have the technical chops but might be too cocky to want to do anything more because they think they’re an expert already)?

Or someone who has the passion, motivation and desire to learn and go above and beyond for you?

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And so I do NOT want you to limit your job search to what you have prior experience in

Instead I want you to adopt a growth mindset

So much of what you’ll need can be learned on the job.

It’s just about convincing someone to take a chance on you.

Don’t think it’s possible?

I’ve helped my clients pivot from:

▪️ Accounting ➡️ to Education Entrepreneurship in Education 
▪️ UI/UX Design ➡️ to Animation 
▪️ Public healthcare ➡️Media and journalism 
▪️ Finance ➡️Beauty and skincare 
▪️ Consulting ➡️ Healthtech

And I know you can too.

Need help figuring out how to pitch yourself and how to parlay your soft skills into offers in your dream industry, send me a message “SOFT SKILLS” - I’d love to help.