skills

Skill Portability:Advantageous Skills and Portability

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(9/17/2016 – These posts have been expanded in a book, Skill Portability: A Guide To Moving Skills Between Jobs)

Last column I discussed my quick guide to figuring out how to port skills form job to job and career to career.  My somewhat annoying acronym is “DARE”, with each letter, unsurprisingly, reminding you of the four ways you can identify portable skills.

Last week it was D – Direct.  The boring realization some skills are just directly useful.  You probably got that.

This week it’s “A” – Advantageous Skills.

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Skill Portability: Direct Skill Portability

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(9/17/2016 – These posts have been expanded in a book, Skill Portability: A Guide To Moving Skills Between Jobs)

So my little guide to “how to do Skill Portability” is an acronym, DARE.  This is not just because I love acronyms, but because it’s handy to remember that skills fit into four categories that let you determine how you can use them in your career.  Be it training plans or a resume, you want to think about what your skills mean to your career.

The D?  That stands for the easiest kind of portability – Direct.

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How To Work With Your Skills Framework

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I remember when Java was a curiosity.  Then I remember when it was going to become the universal language of everything.  Then I remember when it actually got used.  There was about a 15 year period these events were spread among.

Of course, a good programmer knows how to learn any language.  They were ready when Java actually got used.

I remember when the cloud was a curiosity and virtualization was something people only talked about.  Now everything’s cloud, and there’s at least less B.S. and more actual functionality.  That took about ten years.

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