Importance of Digital Skills

Digital Skills are no longer only for graduates of IT, Computer science and relates courses. In today's world if you do not have any form of digital skill you'll be left at a permanent disadvantage in the near future!

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Virtually every job or task today is either fully done with computers and software applications or aided by it. Therefore, employers are looking for persons with one form of digital skill or the other. Even smaller businesses out there make use of some form of digital platforms for their trading.

Examples of Digital Skills

Few years it was all about being computer literate, that is the basics of digital skills. But today, in addition to being computer literate you will need some digital skills to be relevant like the following:

1. Social media marketing skills ( E.g. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter marketing)

2. Digital marketing skills (E.g. Email marketing)

3. Digital content creation (Graphic - video editing, photo editing, etc.)

4. Website design/development

5. Proficient use of productivity tools like Word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. Common examples include Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Other advanced digital skills include

1. UI/UX Design: This is the art of making sure that apps, websites, and other digital channels are intuitive and enjoyable to use.

2. Data science/analytics

3. Artificial intelligence

4. Blockchain technology

5. Internet of things

6. Cloud services

I hope you find this useful and motivational enough to work towards self development and alignment with today's digital world.

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