How to get a Skill Online With VOKS Institute

What is a Skill?

As we all will agree. A skill is a individual ability to do something well, and i also believe that the oxford dictionary will also agree with me on that (smiles). There are so many skill that someone might decide to learn online without any demises. Majority have a white collar job already and are willing to add a skill to their rank which will further more prove their expertise and will also fetch more cash into their pocket.

Like i said earlier, their are so many skills out there to learn depending on your own decision and what you think will be appropriate for you will help you choose a skill.

Skills to Learn

Like i have said, there's a lot of skills out there to learn, depending on what you feel it's right to learn and within your environment. You know , environment really matter when you're choosing a skill. For example, if you're living in an environment with 80% women and 20% men, learning a barbing skill is not right as you might only barb just 12% of the men living there. Learning a hair dressing skill in such environment will definitely be nice, as you might weave for more than 70% of the women there.

And the most interesting part of this is that women are always busy, They will find it more easier if you open a saloon close to them and they will pay no matter the price. Some might even prefer a home service (smiles).

Types of Skills

We have a lot of skills out there that you can learn and make money from them. You can learn more than one skill, depending on you and if you think you will have time to practice all them. I will list the types of skill below;

Technical Skill : Your ability to do specific work well like cooking, computer programming or teaching, requires technical skills. They relate to a particular occupation. You may have learned technical skills from past work experience, school or training. You can improve your skills with practice, education and training. These skills are often included in job listings to describe the primary responsibilities of a position. Examples are:

• Build a cabinet
• Operate equipment
• Coding
• Investigate a scientific question
• Sell products to customers
• Write an article

Soft Skill : Your ability to work well with others and help your organization be more productive requires soft skills. These skills are so valuable that soft skills are often the reason employers decide whether to hire or promote an employee. Some soft skills can be taught in school. But most soft skills you learn in everyday life and can improve at any time if you focus on them.

• Participate as a team member
• Motivate yourself to reach goals
• Communicate well
• Think critically
• Learn quickly
• Think positively
• Be on time

Looking at the way i list the skills above, you will discover that the skill we're about to emphasis (online skills) on belongs to the technical category.

Online Skills

These are skills you acquire online through a e-learning platform, get certified and start using the skill acquired to make money into your wallet and also render services to people.

What are the Best Skills to Learn and Make Money

Sincerely, all skills you learn will definitely earn you money. Either technical or soft skill, you will definitely make money from it, depending on how consistent you are and how good are your products. All the skills i listed above will earn you some for a life time, but you can make more money depending on your strategy.

If you are a content writer, you can make more money apart from writing promotional content for a company, you can make steady money from a blog. If you have a blog and you are a content writer, it is a sure thing that you will make more money through your blogsite as many people will be visiting your blog to read your content.

Placing adverts on your blog will make earn you more money as well, as you will be paid on either Cost per Click (CPC) or Impression which won't stop you from writing promotional contents for companies or doing your white collar job.

What are the best online skill to learn

As we all will agree that online skills are not physical skills, which means that learning this skills, you might not meet the moderator physically, but you will definitely learn all you want to learn within the arranged space or time. And mainly, choosing a skill to learn online, you must consider the work from home factor (a skill that will enable you to work from home or have a online office) which will not disturb you doing other things as well.

You have to also put into consideration the skills that will that will also improve your CV resume at your place of work (if you have a white collar job already). Below, i will list out the in-demand skills you can choose if you're learning online.

• Coding
• Microsoft Excel
• Digital Marketing
• Content Writing
• Search Engine Optimization
• Graphics
• Photography
• Email Marketing
• Video Production
• WordPress
• CV Resume Writing
• Data Science & Analysis and lots more

Best Skills to Acquire in Nigeria

If you're living in Nigeria, there's a plentiful lot and lots of skill you can acquire online and put them to use in Nigeria and are highly in-demand by mostly all the Nigerian companies. Start with a very good example here, the dangote group of companies (a company in Nigeria) might be looking for a content writer, which will help write articles about their newly launched product and you happen to be a content writer with years of experience and you also have a certificate backing you up. You are definitely the man for the job.

Nigeria is a very good place to display your talent and the country is indeed a good market place for entrepreneurs. The country can accommodate both soft skills and technical skills. But since we're talking about technical skills in particular, below are the list of technical skill to acquire in Nigeria;

• Build a cabinet
• Operate equipment
• Write computer code
• Investigate a scientific question
• Sell products to customers
• Content Writing
• Coding
• Microsoft Excel
• Digital Marketing
• Content Writing
• Search Engine Optimization
• Graphics
• Photography
• Email Marketing and lots more

Skills You Can Learn in 3 Months

Despite knowing the fact the a skill is something that will live with you for a long life time (if not forever), there are some skill that you will learn within the space of 3 months and make a hell lot of money from it. Like i said earlier, Nigeria is a good country to showcase your skill. Mainly, the skills that you learn for such short period of time are often the ICT skills and you can learn them either physically or digitally (online courses), any which way you learn these skills you will definitely have a good result.

In case you want o learn can recommend VOKS Institute for you. They have both physical and digital classes.

Below are the skills you can learn within 3 months and you will never regret learn, due to the money they'll fetch for you.

• Content Writing
• Coding
• WordPress (CMS)
• Graphics Design
• Digital Marketing
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Excel
• MS Word
• Video Editing and lots more

Best Handwork a Student Can Learn

As a student, it's very important you have a skills (handwork) that can pay your bills and take you off the expenses list of your parents and your families. Though, it's sometimes hard to be in school and at the same time learning a skill. But for real it's cool if you can work on it and achieve it. You can be a student studying computer science and at the same time learning coding in a online institute. Isn't that cool? It will even help boost your practical experience as a computer scientist.

And if you think you're not interested in computer skills (handwork) since you're studying Accounting, and you want something totally different from what you're studying, you have to put into consideration you time to study at school and i think the best time to fix your skill acquisition is during your holidays, as weekends will be for your assignments and cleaning up yourself, such as washing your dirty clothes. Below are the list of skills (handwork) a student can learn.

• Coding
• Hair Dressing
• Tailoring
• WordPress
• Digital Marketing
• Welding
• Mechanic
• Search Engine Optimization
• Sales and lots more

I think as a student, you should try and sit down and pick up a skill that will be of benefit to you and get you off unwanted disappointments.

Handwork (Skills) a Female Can Learn

There is no limits for females but at some point, some jobs are better left for the males to do. Take for example: Welding or Mechanic. It sound so me how if you see a lady doing these jobs right. And likewise the male doing a more female jobs like Hair dressing (smiles). So below are some skills i think it's good for women to learn.

• Coding
• WordPress (CMS)
• Hair Dressing
• Tailoring
• Communication
• Graphics design and lots more