Depending on your field, having a portfolio may be critical to showing potential employers your creativity and the thoughts behind your creative work. It helps showcase your approach towards solving a particular problem, and part of the content would also be your designs, depending on the nature of your portfolio. If you are a User Experience Researcher, it is vital that you create a portfolio that showcases the research problem, objectives,...
The phrase “acquire a skill” may seem to have been overly used, and so may the phrase “get a degree”; however, reiterating their importance helps provide more clarity. Looking at various debates on this topic, it may have appeared as though one path should be boycotted due to the overly prominent merits of the other. For many, one of the frontline reasons for getting a degree or acquiring a skill is to get a good paying job. For some,...
Being unemployed can be quite challenging, as often times, our focus is on getting regular credit alerts, especially the ones that come once a month. Why not? We have ourselves and families to take care of, and these things become harder when one's employment status changes from employed to unemployed. While it is important to pick up a new skill, it is important to gain these skills in those areas that interest you, not necessarily because...
A lot of times, it is easy to get swallowed by the quest to get a new job which will guarantee the continuous flow of income. Perhaps, it could also guarantee being in a career you are passionate about; however, while on this search, it is critical to ensure that you do not lose sight of the journey and the process therein. Getting your desired job often has to do with having the skills needed to perform such a job, and because we live in a...
