Careers Advice
If you want some careers advice, then no doubt you have worked out that it is everywhere and easy to find - but how much of it is actually useful? From school advisers to your next door neighbour you'll have no trouble finding people willing to give you careers advice that they think will help. So how do you know what is worth listening to?
The truth is that the working landscape has changed so dramatically in the last few years that much of the old advice has passed its sell-by-date. The days of a "job for life" are long gone, replaced by a culture in which people change jobs on a regular basis.
This radically changes the skills you need to succeed. Instead of plodding along doing the same thing every day, employers are much more likely to value skills like flexibility and a willingness to change.
Technical skills are, of course, at a premium, with more and more jobs requiring you to be comfortable using hardware and software - for example, a delivery driver will in all likelihood need to be comfortable using both a sat nav - to find customers - and a hand held a scanner of some kind to keep up with deliveries.
Nonetheless, some old skills will still stand you in good stead, particularly literacy and numeracy - even in a world dominated by technology you still need to be able to read, write, and perform basic maths tasks.
Few people know what job they will be in ten years from now, so equip yourself with some basics skills and qualifications, and be prepared to learn and adapt and you'll be ready for the opportunities that come your way.