Common Day Vocabulary

Today’s job market is a highway of complicated twists and turns, and our road is constantly evolving. To be successful in today’s job market, you must be aware that what might have made a person shining star 2 decades ago, has drastically changed. The job market in 21st century has some very different demands from, the market 20 years ago. The words data analytics, social media presence, and crowd sourcing, are among just a few of the business terms that have become part of our common day vocabulary. Understanding the changes that have happened and the skills that we might be missing, can form a guiding path for us, so that we may focus on acquiring and fine tuning our skill sets, that will propel us towards a successful career outlook.

Learning proper and appropriate communication skills is a much-needed skill. We live in a time of global communication, where one day you may be talking to someone in the next room, and the next they might be in Bulgaria. “The key to staying relevant and resilient in the face of a constantly changing environment is to be able to adapt one’s thinking to cater to various situations that present differing variables.” (Chang,

Forbes mentioned in an article that “the term “21st century skills” is used often in educational circles to refer to a range of abilities and competencies that go beyond what has traditionally been taught in the classroom, including problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation.” (Morrison, 2015). These are the skills that we must focus in cultivating, so that we can bring to the employment table, the talent needed to succeed. Though we must remember that skills are not just what you as an individual can personally accomplish, these skills also include how you interact with others.

Mentioned in numerous articles and discussed in many college classes, E.I. emotional intelligence is now, and will be, a much-needed skill for your present and future. We live in a global economy, we must understand that how we interact with others, socially and emotionally will impact our careers. “David Deming, associate professor of education and economics at Harvard University, established that social skills, or the ability to “play well” with others, will be vital for the modern workplace.” (Chang,