Technology has been a game-changer in the past 10 years, and you better believe it is transforming career development
by Chris Kulbaba
10. Social skills
For a business to stay competitive, gauging the effectiveness, speed and content of communication skills that lie within a potential hire can be a crucial factor for success of the organization as a whole. For many people, using social media in their daily lives has allowed them to become better at solving problems, researching information, and collaborating with others – all useful talents when searching for a job, during the selection process or once you’ve been hired.
As career professionals, whether we personally use these tools or not, we must be aware of the changes and the potential trends in our ever-changing employment landscape. A global workforce, online collaboration and crowdsourcing – the only thing that will stay the same is that change will always happen. There are fantastic opportunities to share and model success for our clients and ourselves – all it takes is a bit of time to talk to each other and watch the trends.
Chris Kulbaba is an Employment Counselor with the London Employment Help Centre in London, ON. Chris regularly delivers webinars for Conestoga College in the CDP program, offers his services as an expert speaker, facilitator and coach on social media topics, and is creating a new career development tool “Career Card Sort” – but takes the greatest pride in being a dad and a loyal family man. You can find Chris on Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, Facebook and at his new website/blog launching in January 2014 better-together.ca.
