7 Career Skills You Will Improve When Travelling
I’m sure we’re all aware that travelling can be a life-changing experience. It allows you to see other cultures, broaden your horizons and perhaps appreciate what you have a lot more but did you know that it can also help your career? In this post Sophia gives you 7 simple tips travelling can improve your work life too.
Not all people find time to travel: those, who are working hard, often decide to continue working instead of using all their vacation days. However, travelling can help you not only to relax but also to boost your career, as it improves many skills that are considered good for an employee. Want to know more about these skills? We’ll tell you!
1. Research
Good travelers are also good researchers. Most of the travel tips mention research as one of the most important skills for tourists, and it is true. If you are going to a certain country on your own, which is much cheaper and more interesting than buying a tour, you have to learn a lot before leaving on vacation. Thorough research will help you understand what places you should visit first and what to avoid, what food you would like to try, where you can stay, how you can travel across the country you’re going to visit, and so on. And, of course, good research skills will help you in your career, as you’ll be able to find all the necessary information quickly.
2. Financial planning
This skill is equally important in life, in work, and in travelling. Even if you had troubles with financial planning before, don’t worry: this will change as soon as you start travelling a lot. As mentioned above, travelling requires thorough preparation, and planning your finances is a part of such preparation. You need to understand how much money you can spend during your vacation and to split this sum into days if you don’t want to end up penniless on the third day of your vacation.
Moreover, those, who want to travel a lot, need to find the ways to make it possible. Indeed, you can spend less money on travelling if you find cheaper flights, hotels, and restaurants and learn some money-saving tricks. And you can use these skills later, both in your professional and personal life.
3. Time management
It’s impossible to travel comfortably if you’re bad at time management: trains, planes, and buses usually don’t wait for those, who are late. Moreover, you need to improve your time management skills if your goal is to see as many new places and things as possible during your vacation. That’s why you’ll need to learn how to do more things in the same period of time, how to be punctual and how to set your priorities.
It worth noting that time management is one of the most important skills for employees, as it makes them more productive and punctual. Your boss will definitely appreciate that.
4. Social skills
Even if you are very shy, you’ll need to communicate with people during your vacation. Moreover, you’ll probably make some new friends among locals and other travelers, learn more about their countries’ culture, and so on. This will affect your personal and professional life too: employees with good social skills are valuable and you’ll find it easy to socialize with new people after your journeys. After all, this isn’t as half as challenging as trying to communicate with the locals, whose language you don’t know.
5. Language skills
The more you travel, the more languages you know. Of course, you probably don’t know all of them too well, but that’s alright: the language basics are often enough to understand what a foreign client says or writes. Even if you need to switch to English at some point, that’s still fine: usually, people appreciate even an attempt to speak with them in their native language.
6. Stress management
We hope that you’ll never find yourself in a stressful situation while travelling, but if you do, this will still be a valuable experience. Of course, getting out of troubles is challenging and scary, but once you overcome these troubles, you’ll start thinking better about yourself and facing every new stressful situation being calmer than before.
People, who don’t get into stressful situations often, feel lost and confused when something unexpected happens. On the contrary, travelers can handle such situations much better, because a work deadline doesn’t seem as stressful as missing your bus and desperately trying to get to the airport on time, for example.
7. Decision-making
When we travel to an unknown country, we leave our comfort zone right after the plane takes off. Even if we are well prepared, some unexpected situations are likely to arrive and you have to deal with them quickly. This includes not only all sorts of troubles mentioned above but also many daily situations: for example, your plans to spend a day on a beach are cancelled because of a weather and you have to decide what to do instead; a bar you wanted to visit is closed and you have to go somewhere else, and so on. You have to make decisions that may seem small and almost insignificant, but you have to make them quickly and to be sure you won’t regret it. This means that if you face a similar situation at work, you’ll make a certain decision quickly too. And that’s a good quality for an employee.
Conclusion
As you see, travelling is not only about rest but also about exploring and improving yourself. Allow yourself to travel more and you’ll see how it will change your life!
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