The emergence and proliferation of Web 2.0 technology has not just changed the way we use the internet and communicate with our friends, its impact is also being felt in the career world. This new technology, ever evolving, is profoundly influencing the range of essential skills and attitudes needed today to initiate, build and grow a successful career.
The Web 2.0 World is faster, interactive, immediately global, constantly shifting, interdependent, user controlled and highly connected. This has bought with it great opportunities for individual careers as the world is now your market. The potential is exciting but it places new demands on the individual who wants to thrive in this Career 2.0 world.
Web 2.0 is a catchphrase that has come to describe the “new” generation of services and sites found on the internet that are highly interactive and user generated. In the past websites were mainly used either as information portals, or ways to purchase things. Now, web 2.0 is used to describe the social networking sites, wikis, blogs and aggregators that allow users to command and create their own content, collaborate with others and share it with the world. With this in mind Career 2.0 is a term that I have created that describes “new” generation career skills and how web 2.0 technology is being used to build and manage careers in the 21st century.
An ability to adapt, to change, and be flexible are now standard expectations, as is an ability to use Word, PowerPoint, email and Excel. Web 2.0 demands a new generation of skills, which are set to become the basics for successful career development.
The first adaption to make is to your attitude. Think of yourself as a business, ME Incorporated or Me INC. The new generation skill sets are departments in your business that need to be functioning effectively in order for your business to be profitable and sustainable.
You are the CEO in charge of your business, your career, and its ongoing development. Your goal is success in the 21st century, in whatever way you define success. How can you be a successful CEO? How do you create success when times have changed, where new rules and where new knowledge is required?
Like any good CEO worth their million dollar bonus (!) you need to find out what resources and skills are required to attain the goal, and how to obtain them so they are part of ME INC.
THE Six Career 2.0 Success SKILLS
- Self Leadership Skills
- Ethical Entrepreneurial Skills
- Self Promotion & Marketing Skills
- Global Networking & Relationship Building Skills
- Team 2.0 Skills
- Technology 2.0 Literacy Skills
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