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Joshua, First you have to make a no escape clause, burn your boat, sink or swim decision that you are going to learn this new skill. I use an online timer http://e.ggtimer.com/ and establish a chunk of time that I'm going to devote to this new skill. I like 90 minutes and once the timer goes off I get up stretch, get a drink of water, walk around a little ...

To answer your question So my question, Is their any online RAILS community or any other community/website for such things where I can volunteer my spare time and in the mean time it will enhance my rails skills Look up github, they have a languages page where you can browse projects by language. It will take hours, maybe even days, before you find ...

If you have a competency framework to map against, then yes, it can be very straightforward. As an example, the Institute of Information Security Professionals has a list of core competencies that you can be assessed against. A short excerpt is included: From this example you can see that you have good categorisation of the skills in category A, B, C, D ...

I struggle with the same thing. I've been using a free site called www.simplist.me which helps me basically set up regular routines for pretty much anything (I actually have one for dental care and taking care of my car, among others). It works pretty well in helping me stay on track with new things I want to get done daily. They are in their alpha stage so ...

This might help you. It's a visual representation of a high school transcript. What a person has studied, the distribution over different fields, the depth of the person's studies. Doesn't quite fit, but it's close. bit.ly/UFXLAa Then, on a related note, I saw that someone had come up with this "value proposition wheel." What value does this startup (but ...

Since @Rory Alsop provided an excellent framework for quantifiable skills, I'm going to skip that and just discuss the less quantifiable skills...like determination, dedication, etc. I'll call these soft skills for the purpose of this answer. I work as a freelancer, so selling my soft skills is equally important as selling my knowledge of a particular ...