Comments on: What are some practical job skills I need to learn? http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2009/09/08/what-are-some-practical-job-skills-i-need-to-learn/ Everything to do with thickening your wallet by entrepreneur turned President of an Investment Company Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Riscario Insider http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2009/09/08/what-are-some-practical-job-skills-i-need-to-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-19571 Riscario Insider Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:43:56 +0000 http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/?p=1157#comment-19571 As guiness416 points out, the ability to learn is key. That's really what schooling teaches. Nowadays, there's so much free basic training available online. Even videos. Back in university, we had a four hour course in APL, a very powerful programming language for the mathematically-inclined. This let us put APL on our resumes. Once hired, our professor said we could learn on the job at the employer's expense. That strategy worked (and continues to work). As guiness416 points out, the ability to learn is key. That’s really what schooling teaches. Nowadays, there’s so much free basic training available online. Even videos.

Back in university, we had a four hour course in APL, a very powerful programming language for the mathematically-inclined. This let us put APL on our resumes. Once hired, our professor said we could learn on the job at the employer’s expense. That strategy worked (and continues to work).

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]]> By: guinness416 http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2009/09/08/what-are-some-practical-job-skills-i-need-to-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-19432 guinness416 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:26:11 +0000 http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/?p=1157#comment-19432 We've had new hires without some of the same knowledge, but they pick it up extremely quickly (you'd want to see how fast a 22 year old can learn to get around AutoCAD compared with me only a decade older!). I vaguely remember some of this stuff being taught at college years ago, I'm surprised it isn't SOP to learn it today. We’ve had new hires without some of the same knowledge, but they pick it up extremely quickly (you’d want to see how fast a 22 year old can learn to get around AutoCAD compared with me only a decade older!). I vaguely remember some of this stuff being taught at college years ago, I’m surprised it isn’t SOP to learn it today.

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