It's time to Skill Up!

Wise Words: skill up

When you open up Business Spotlight 2/2010 you’ll find a new product inside. It’s a colourful and stylish 24-page vocabulary guide to help you to skill up.

Skill Up! is the name of our new product and skilling up is our goal for you, too. The name is a phrasal verb that’s quite new to the English language and was probably first used by people playing competitive video games. In most games, if you want to move up a level, you have to learn new skills — or “skill up”. In a recent review of a new Star Trek game, VGrevolution, the author writes: “As you skill up you’ll become strong in areas and evolve your character down your own desired path."

The same could be said about the “real world”, too. You can skill up in business English so that you become stronger on your desired career path. Governments now talk about skilling up the unemployed, businesses now talk about using the slowdown to skill up their workers.

The word “up” is used with “skill” to show that a person’s skills are increasing or moving to another level. With Skill Up!, we will show you how to increase your word power and move on to another language level.

It’s time for you to skill up in business English!