A man by the name Mark Twain once said “My schooling doesn’t have to get in my way of education” In recent times, evidence has shown that while schools claim to prepare students for the future, schools are merely preparing students for the past. In the future, most jobs will become automated and the ones who succeed will have to be innovative, curious, creative, with the ability to adapt to rising changes. In the future, most people won't be hired because of what they know because who cares what facts and data you’ve memorized? In the future, people will be hired because of what they can do with their knowledge. Can they solve devise new solutions to real-life questions and not just bubble in multiple-choice answers? Fun fact: the leading criteria for employment in the future would be the acquisition of soft skills. There’s a hard reason why employees are placing focus on soft skills. In my opinion, it's because soft skills cannot be replaced by automation. Machines can’t compete with emotional intelligence, creativity, and curiosity. Hence, there's a need for students to bring such skills to their skill board if students are to be prepared for the future and not the past. The following are 10 tips for HS students.
2 Embrace Collaboration. In a report by Salesforce, 86% of employees and executives cite a lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for workplace failures. Small businesses lose tens of thousands of income when there’s no collaboration. Lack of collaboration has greatly affected companies that they are on the lookout to hire the right team members. An African proverb says “if there’s no enemy within then the enemy outside can do us no harm. With the increasing pace and pressure of today’s workplace, collaborating with others is an indispensable skill that new workers need to possess before getting on the job and continue to develop while they are there. 3. Develop Good Time Management Skills. Usually, schools should equip students with skills that are useful not just on the test day but for a lifetime. It’s quite unfortunate that most students manage time wisely when it comes to bubbling in multiple-choice questions but fail woefully at the test of time in real-life issues. Yes! Time waits for no man- not even the wealthiest in the world. Time is a constant factor in everyday life. No matter the day of the week, there will always be 24 hours in a day. Striking a balance between the increasing workload and the constant number of hours portrays good time management skills. 4. Give Room For Flexibility. In fact, an important skill necessary to thrive in future jobs is flexibility. Flexibility means the ability to adapt to changes and the potential to manage those changes. Otherwise termed adaptability, flexibility revolves round most soft skills. As changes in everyday life occur, responding and adjusting to such changes might sound harsh but it’s way more important than we think. 5 Have a Vision For Yourself: The beginning of a powerful transformation starts with developing a mental blueprint with the exact specification of how you want your life to look. It’s often said that someone without a vision will end up in a state of confusion. Having a vision helps you to develop your mindset and to explore the realm of unlimited possibilities. What kind of life do you want to live? What kind of friends do you want to keep? How do you want your finances to look? The people without a vision often end up in confusion, especially during hard situations. Everything that has been in existence was once in a state of imagination so everything that will be, most likely have to be products of imagination. Do I need to remind you that you can receive whatever it is you can conceive? A cliché but true. Until people laugh at you because of your vision, you haven’t really envisioned something great. Why? People won’t laugh at you if you plan to do something small. Just so you know that someone else’s opinion about you doesn’t have to become your reality. 6. Seek and Engage in valuable extracurricular activities. Experience is an important criterion often considered in workplaces. Someone who has gained traction by volunteering at a research laboratory would have an edge when applying for a research job in the future. As a high school student, identify your passion and build your extra-curricular activities around your passion. The high school period is a great time to build fantastic extras. Do you want to work at NASA but feel no urge to even join the JETS club in your school? Perhaps, you desire to be a topnotch artist but you have never visited the studio in your school? The book of life says do not despise days of little beginning. Remember that it is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have it at the moment than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. 7. Read About Your Role Models. It is often said that nothing new is under the sun. Identify major personages in your field and try to find a way to reach them. Should there be difficulty in reaching them, read about them. Stories often inspire one to aspire beyond the owner of the story. An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Make attempts to identify the errors of leading people in your field and work your way to avoid those errors. Finally, bear in mind that life’s not a bed of roses. In life, disasters, tragedies, and crises are everywhere. The beginning of disaster is not the moment you aren’t achieving your dreams or goals. Rather, disaster is having no goal to achieve. The tragedy of life doesn’t occur when you aren’t at par with your dreams. Real tragedy occurs when you have no dreams to accomplish. Crises don't befall you when you aren’t securing the bag. A real crisis occurs when you have no bag to secure.
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