{"id":362286,"date":"2025-09-01T15:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmacs.co.uk\/?p=362286"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:11:05","slug":"going-beyond-tech-savvy-how-to-develop-digital-skills-for-your-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmacs.co.uk\/blog\/going-beyond-tech-savvy-how-to-develop-digital-skills-for-your-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Beyond Tech Savvy: How to Develop Digital Skills for Your Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For many young people these days, technology is a huge part of their lives. Some people refer to this as being \u201cdigitally native\u201d. This is just another way of saying that you\u2019ve grown up with technology, so you\u2019re very used to it.<\/p>\n

But growing up with technology and being familiar with it, doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that you understand it, or are able to use technology to enhance your skills.<\/p>\n

You might find it easy to use social media or be a great Googler, able to find any information you need. But what about your ability to work with a range of computer programs and to use your digital skills for work?<\/p>\n

The Good Things Foundation<\/a> reports that 8.5 million people in the UK lack basic digital skills. This is a large portion of people, considering how often we use technology.<\/p>\n

You might think this figure represents older generations of people who grew up without technology, but this isn\u2019t necessarily the case. There are young people out there who aren\u2019t confident in their digital skills as well.<\/p>\n

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The importance of being digitally literate<\/h2>\n

Digital literacy is the ability to understand and use technology. It\u2019s just as important as your reading and maths skills. It\u2019s easy to assume because you grew up during the technological age that you know what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a big difference between using tech in your everyday lives and using it at work. Especially when you consider how digital everything is becoming.<\/p>\n

You might think that not having digital literacy skills won\u2019t hold you back too greatly, especially if you don\u2019t want to work a job that has anything to do with the digital world.<\/p>\n

But building your tech skills early, in life could provide you with a better quality of life. Everything is becoming more digital, in ways that we could have never imagined. Being prepared for the changes is better than being left behind when they do eventually arrive.<\/p>\n

Even practical, hands-on job roles are becoming more digital, so gaining these skills are essential to our futures.<\/p>\n

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Ways to enhance your skills<\/h2>\n

Computing can be quite confusing, it\u2019s no secret. There are some elements of the digital world that people with special tech talents can only understand. But that\u2019s like anything.<\/p>\n

What you might not know, is that there are many resources that can help you to become a more digitally enhanced version of yourself. And the Raspberry Pi Foundation is one of them.<\/p>\n

“Raspberry Pi” might make you think of the delicious desert that pairs well with custard, but that\u2019s not what we\u2019re talking about here. They are an organisation that feels passionately about young people getting digitally literate. They\u2019ve created opportunities online and offline for young people to improve their digital skills.<\/p>\n

You can join a coding club, learn at home with their online activities, take part in challenges or even read their blog. Click here<\/a> to discover all the opportunities available to you.<\/p>\n

Additionally, our opportunity page has a whole host of programmes that can help you become a more tech savvy person.<\/p>\n

To make things easier, we\u2019ve compiled a list of these opportunities in different subcategories.<\/p>\n

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For those hopeful tech careerists<\/h2>\n

These opportunities are for those aspiring to have a career in all things digital. They’re all great starting points for people at the beginning of a career in technology.<\/p>\n