Michelle Weise

That burden is on us.

And we have to do this really interesting kind of storytelling and translation about all of the hidden skills we bring to the table and make that understandable to a prospective employer.

Yeah.

For younger workers who are kind of going into their first job, that might not be their...

first choice, one of the things is to just remember that we don't have to sort of search for that higher lofty calling.

Sometimes we can work with purpose, even when our work doesn't feel purposeful.

And at the same time, I know employers tend to kind of fixate on very technical, hard skills that we need to bring to the table, but also realize that as we contend with this longer, more turbulent work life,

We're going to have to actually really get sophisticated at our human skills when we think about critical thinking, systems thinking, emotional intelligence, that empathy.

All of that still requires practice, even though it's innate within us.

We're not actually sophisticated at it.

And so one of the ways to think about it is I can almost imagine taking like a tech boot camp for cybersecurity and learning that technical skill in a short amount of time.

It's a lot harder for me to think about how I practice the human skill of empathy as an example.

So I don't think it's an either or.

I think it's a both and.

It's both our generalist, humanist skills that we need to bring to the table.

But we also have to have enough technical skills in order to know when to intervene at the right time.

So even all the things you're talking about, absolutely, those hard skills have given you a level of expertise to

to sort of engage with the material in a different way, right?

But then when you think about something like AI and machine learning and the ways in which we are now able to sort of leapfrog and I can build a website even though I have zero coding skills, right?

And I can build a beautiful deck using these different kinds of AI tools that I've never been able to present in that way before, right?