3 Steps To Be Happily Skilled To Be Industry Ready

The first action item for each individual to do is To Identify and List Your Happily Effective Skills. Your honest thoughtful answers that build this list are the only right answers! The list that you see here is an example list for your better comprehension of the first action todo.

This one is easy to get started. All you need to do is make a list of skills that you have acquired over time that are effective for you and also make you happy! Effective skills are those that fetch you a tangible reward upon their execution, since they are of value to others. Happy skills are those you have acquired over the years and you just enjoy it when you are executing them for yourself or for anyone else. For example, if you are a professional, you may have acquired a skill for building healthy rewarding relationships (a social skill) with your customers, colleagues and other peer professionals. You find yourself happy executing it, growing your relationships and it has fetched you a tangible, consistent results over time, be it in the form of sales, or rewards or recognitions. In short, you have a skill that you are happy executing and others value it too.

This is another example list of your first action todo. As you think about your acquired skills, you will come across skills that make you happy but are of no relevance to others OR skills that fetch you a return but you are not quite happy executing them. This information too is valuable and can be listed separately. For example, this can include your math skill assuming you are good at it, but would happily give up, given a choice! What matters is that you just find the will, inspiration and motivation to do it! Just do it!

Once you have your happily effective skills list categorized, the next important thing TO DO is to benchmark and understand your true “skills status” vis-à-vis the expected future skills need. The way to do that is to compare your skill category with their expected future status shown here in this infographic. The status of some such skills from different categories is shown scattered across the four different quadrants of the infographic. Your aim is to be able to better understand your own skills status and its relative position amidst the four quadrants. The best quadrant is the top right quadrant. Knowing where your skills status is today and setting your skills status to be future ready will help you understand your own skills gap going forward.

Refine your understanding of your skills status by comparing your skills categories with these different set of infographics. Best is to draw your own personal infographic and compare it yourself with the above to know your skills status. The first infographic compare will help you understand how prepared are you to face the skills shifts resulting from Automation and AI. The second infographic compare will help you to understand how prepared are you to negotiate wage!

Continue refining your understanding of your skills status now by geography comparing your skills categories with these different set of infographics. The first infographic compare will help you understand how prepared are you to seize the opportunity presented by skills shifting more towards technological, social and emotional skills across various geographies. Given the results of the poll and the fact the physical skills got a 0% vote from professional, I wanted to highlight the fact that although the trend is negative, please appreciate that it’s base today and going forward is the highest across all geographies. So please don’t give up too early on your physical skill prowess. They are still of value and earn a living for a significant majority of people in the world’s two largest populated geographies. The second infographic compare will help you to understand how prepared are you for specific industry sectors across geographies!

And finally compare your skills across the skills categories with this research data from several geographies to best understand your refined skills status vis-à-vis the expected future skills in-demand. The second action to do results can be in the form of a personal infographic that benchmarks your skills status and shows you the true picture of your present skills, your future goals, and your skills gap. Knowing your skills gap itself is half the problem solved!

What then remains for you to do is execute a self-development program to learn, build and sharpen your happily effective skills, bridge your skills gap and be industry ready! Remember that the best way to learn and retain your learning is “Practice by Doing”. Remember that your learning experience will experience the peaks and valleys before you climb the slope of enlightenment towards the plateau of sustainability to be happily skilled and to be industry ready.

If you are Doing What You Like, AND Liking What You Do - For A Living, You are Happily Skilled! However, as automation displaces job roles, millions of people including students & professionals will need to acquire & sharpen skills in-demand. Everyone understands, that it is essential to regularly sharpen your skills and adapt them newer job roles, in demand globally. The real question is, How?

There are a number of ways you can do it as shown here with Happy Skills. What matters is that you are happily skilled and industry ready.

This is the year 2025 updated skills demand prediction chart for your updated reference.

For ease and convenience of revision and reference, I am including a full length version of the course here. Have added some exciting music for the fun and joy of this experience.

This is a demonstration of an advanced web application created for you to figure out your happy skills and grow them  "To do what you love and love what you do for a living"