Career Development•3 min read
Ten skills, ten weekends, ten chances to prove you’re future ready.
Skills are like currencies. Some inflate, some devalue, some suddenly turn into Bitcoin. Here are ten that are rising fast—and tiny projects that prove you own them.
The ten and their weekend hacks
- Prompt engineering: Build a chatbot that answers FAQs for your college fest.
- Data visualization: Turn your Spotify history into an interactive dashboard.
- Cloud deployment: Host your personal site on AWS free tier.
- Cybersecurity basics: Run a vulnerability scan on your home WiFi.
- DevOps practices: Automate a “Hello World” pipeline on GitHub Actions.
- Python for ML: Train a model to predict tomorrow’s weather (badly but credibly).
- API integration: Pull cricket scores into a simple app.
- Agile collaboration: Run a mini sprint with three friends on Trello.
- UI/UX: Redesign your favorite app’s login screen on Figma.
- Ethical AI: Write a short policy on when you’ll disclose AI use.