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The benefits of adjacent skills
- Sustain motivation at work. Having adjacent skills means you can switch between a wider range of tasks.
- Build a distinctive viewpoint. Having skills from various areas that are relevant to your work will enable you to see overlaps and connections where other people don’t, bringing to the table non-evident solutions that may be more effective than the obvious ones.
- Expand career perspective. Building skills through agency will open new doors and even allow you to craft a unique role for yourself.
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Examples of adjacent skills
- Main skill: Writing- Adjacent skill: SEO
- Main skill: Design - Adjacent skill: Illustration
- Main skill: Content marketing - Adjacent skill: Content marketing
- Main skill: Coding- Adjacent skill: Technical writing
- Main skill: Product management- Adjacent skill: P...
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Building skills through adjacency
Adjacent skills are skills that are close or related to the ones you already have.
The main advantage is that you are not starting from scratch: you can usually use some of the knowledge from your existing skills to acquire adjacent skills. Not only will the process feel ea...
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