The 2 most important things you need to learn in your first few jobs to advance your career faster

• Yes, it's helpful to develop "job skills." 
• But what really matters early in your career is learning 1) what you're naturally good at, and 2) what you most like and want to do.
• If you can build yourself a job and career that combines both, you'll soar.

One common piece of advice for people early in their careers is to learn… skills.

Skills are certainly helpful.

Considering how expensive school is and how much time we devote to it, in fact, it's remarkable how few actual job skills most of us learn while we're there.

But in my experience, skills are not the most important things you should try to learn in your first few jobs.

The most important things you should try to learn are: