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Boost your skills to achieve more in 2020

2nd December, 2019 Read time: Two minutes

Boost your skills and get ready to achieve more in 2020

The start of 2020 is now less than a month away! If you’ve got big plans to achieve more in the New Year, why not get a head start? There's still heaps of time to prepare for January and make sure you’re in the best position to reach your goals next year.

Futures can help you get where you need to be to make your dreams reality. We offer a wide range of services to push you to achieve more than you might think is possible.

This week, we’re focusing on skills. Everyone has them and you probably use some of them every day. But are they the right skills for work, and what can you do if not?

Hard Skills

Hard skills include qualifications and abilities that are learned through work experience, courses and formal training. In more practical jobs, this includes physical skills such as plumbing, but in other sectors, this can include analytics, administration or how to use specific software.

Soft skills

Soft skillls or ‘transferable skills’ aren't specific to any job, sector or person. These include organisation, timekeeping, communication, teamwork and problem-solving, among many others. To some people, these skills come naturall, for others it take a bit of work.

Improving these skills

If you need to work on your skills to meet your 2020 goals, Futures can help. We can help you find the right course of action to achieve more.

Talk to us and find out how we can help you to develop your existing skills and discover new ones.

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