Your Skills

To remain relevant In today's complex, ever-changing, and hyper-competitive marketplace, individuals need to constantly assess their skills, identify gaps, and then engage in the appropriate learning and development program. To achieve any level of sustainability, organizations need to not only provide learning and development opportunities for their employees, but also commit to such an approach for the foreseeable future.

This pursuit of skill development, as discussed in LinkedIn's 2023 Workplace Report, requires both the individual and the organization to practice agility. "For individuals, agility fuels career growth and relevance. For organizations, agility equals the ability to survive and thrive even amid economic headwinds. And what is agility if not constant learning?" Enter NJIT's Continued Learning.

A joint venture with the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), NJIT's Continued Learning offers individuals and organizations the ability to enhance their skill set by enrolling in online courses or creating customized training programs. 

According to the OECD and its Learning Compass 2030 individuals have three different types of skills:

• cognitive and meta-cognitive skills, which include critical thinking, creative thinking, learning-to-learn and self-regulation
• social and emotional skills, which include empathy, self-efficacy, responsibility, and collaboration
• practical and physical skills, which include using new information and communication technology devices

Cognitive skills are a set of thinking strategies that enable the use of language, numbers, reasoning and acquired knowledge. They comprise verbal, nonverbal and higher-order thinking skills. Metacognitive skills include learning-to-learn skills and the ability to recognize one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values.

Social and emotional skills are a set of individual capacities that can be manifested in consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that enable people to develop themselves, cultivate their relationships at home, school, work and in the community, and exercise their civic responsibilities.

Physical skills are a set of abilities to use physical tools, operations, and functions. They include manual skills, such as the ability to use information and communication technology devices and new machines, play musical instruments, craft artworks, play sports; life skills, such as the ability to dress oneself, prepare food and drink, keep oneself clean; and the ability to mobilize one’s capacities, including strength, muscular flexibility, and stamina. Practical skills are those required to use and manipulate materials,

If you are interested in learning more about what NJIT's Continued Learning can do for you, email us today at continuedlearning@njit.edu.