How much education is necessary for you to properly do your job and keep your career moving along at a solid pace?
For many professionals, it seems there can never be too much education on their resumes. With more and more careers requiring technical skills, online experience and the ability to juggle a number of tasks at any given time in the workplace, being highly educated certainly comes in handy.
With that being the case, take some time and see where you are well-covered and perhaps a little deficient on the educational side, especially if you want to maintain your ability to move up the corporate ladder.
You Can Never Have Too Much Education
In order to properly assess your educational needs in the workplace that pays your bills and allows you to for the most part enjoy the lifestyle you want and have, look at the following factors:
- Your employer – Start with reviewing your current job, what your employer asks of you and how you can properly gather the additional skills and education you need. Is your employer seemingly always offering advancements and raises at work? Is he or she bringing in outside talent instead of possibly giving you a promotion due to your educational level? Finally, does your employer offer some or full opportunities to go back to school (including online options) in order for you and others to accrue more education? These are all areas that you should have a good handle on so you are never left behind;
- Online options – With the growth of the Internet on what seems like a daily basis, more companies are allowing workers to not have to travel to colleges and other educational facilities after work in the evenings or on weekends to gain the additional schooling and skills they might need. Whether you have/want to strengthen your skills in data and communications or a wide array of other course work and job skills, don’t be hesitant to roll up your sleeves and take advantage of online courses. Yes, the extra time needed to study and take tests may seem a little burdensome at times, but the rewards for gaining that added education and then applying it to the tasks you’re ask to do at work can never be taken for granted. Finally, get yourself comfortable with online needs and skills if you haven’t really been a regular on the Internet over the last decade or so. The worldwide web has so much to offer, but how to find it and take advantage of it does take some work on your part. This is especially crucial for older employees who have not grown up with the Internet like today’s 20-somethings have. Don’t be afraid or feel overwhelmed at times when on the web. In the long run, the online and educational skills you attain via the Internet will only bolster your career ;
- Co-workers – Stop and take some time to see what those you work with are doing to improve their workplace skills, especially via online opportunities. For those fellow employees you are friends with, you can oftentimes do online classes together, taking some of the fear out of it for you or all of you (depending on how many decide to go to class together). It is also a good idea to collaborate with some co-workers to see which coursework they might have been asked to take by management to improve their standing in the company and ultimately their careers. There are a number of fields that have really taken off in recent years or the last decade or so, so investigate what may and may not assist you in your online educational endeavors;
- Personal growth – Last but not least, are you growing personally and at the pace you want to? Your career and what you do outside the job do in fact intertwine at times, so be fulfilled and happy in both. Taking online courses and getting a degree via your online efforts can serve as a springboard both professionally and personally. Obtaining that degree or degrees can be just the answer to making you professionally satisfied and also happy and content when you leave the workplace each and every day.
