The ChatGPT Skill Stack That Can Boost Your Salary By 47% – Forbes
ByRachel Wells,
Contributor.
Critical thinking is an essential asset in your AI toolkit
It’s not enough to know how to use ChatGPT and Gen AI tools. While an AWS survey and even Indeed.com confirmed that learning Generative AI can bump up your salary by up to 47% (depending on your role), there’s more to it than merely learning the basics.
If you want to maximize your earning potential as a freelancer, employed professional, or side hustler, you need to employ a strategy called skill-stacking.
This strategy works on the principle of multiplying your value, as opposed to multiplying your hours. You achieve this through combining two or more skills so you can be at the top 1% of professionals in your industry and niche.
When you combine AI with in-demand power skills, there’s no limit to what you can achieve in your career or the money you can make, especially as a freelance professional.
Within this article, you’ll discover:
The three essential skills you’ll need to stack when using ChatGPT (or any other Gen AI tool for that matter) offer these benefits:
These skills are:
Companies ultimately pay for efficiency. That’s what’s driving their layoffs and that’s what’s ultimately spearheading the freelance hiring surge instead of hiring full-time employees.
So, if you know how to leverage AI to deliver results, tangible business results that are relevant to a particular business's growth within their specific niche and industry, this makes you a high-value asset.
To unlock the full potential of ChatGPT and similar tools, you need to be able to understand how to prompt it, not casually, but in a way that encourages the bot to fully answer and deliver a quality output.
This includes factors such as providing sufficient context and detail, asking ChatGPT to roleplay, and using the tools such as deep research or the coding feature, depending on what specifically you’re looking for. This enables you to create entire workflows, (again applied AI), that are adapted to the specific solutions needed for your client or employer.
How many times have you seen entire AI-generated posts and content that made you question the authority, sincerity, ethics, and credibility of the person behind it. As a professional utilizing AI as part of your business model and career strategy, you need critical thinking so that you know when to use AI and when not to, and when not to overuse it.
Critical thinking skills will help you:
Here’s why this skill stack is crucial to your career success:
Develop your AI-powered skill-stack by taking these steps today:
Applied AI boosts your efficiency in the workplace and in your business if you're a freelancer
Can ChatGPT increase my salary?
Yes, if you know how to apply it to your role and how to help the business achieve its goals. You can also use it to learn high-income skills, thus boosting your pay.
Why are critical thinking skills essential?
Critical thinking skills work hand-in-hand with Gen AI tools like ChatGPT because they help you evaluate and apply the outputs of those tools, for strategic decision-making.
