Digital ID Coach

There are a lot of insightful people talking these days about the changes that are going on now. Of course the economy is challenging, as every mainstream media reports. However, the fundamental shifts that are undermining a speedy recovery to status quo are what I find more interesting. Lots of people are being laid off because some of our larger industries are facing hard times. For example, auto manufacturing workers and newspaper journalists spring to mind.

The Institute for the Future’s Tessa Finlev wrote an article called 10 Workplace Skills of the Future; the skills workers should strive to have and the skills workers should seek out and promote. The first three:

Ping Quotient
Excellent responsiveness to other people’s requests for engagement; strong propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network

Longbroading
Seeing a much bigger picture; thinking in terms of higher level systems, bigger networks, longer cycles

Open Authorship
Creating content for public modification; the ability to work with massively multiple contributors

Many people have one or more of these skills as native strengths. The question becomes how to make use of our strengths in a way that translates into a job. Human Resources (HR) departments don’t exactly know how to value or even recognize these as valuable capabilities yet. So how do we get to the future from here?

Coaching moment: Take a look at the list of skills  at Tessa’s post. Think about your past jobs, and write a job description that highlighted those strengths. Rewrite your résumé with a focus toward those skill sets. How might you quantify how well you did in any one area? Talk with your friends, see if they know of any jobs that sound like a fit for your new résumé. Note that they don’t have to think of job openings, just jobs that sound like good fits. It might give you a new direction for research and thought.

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