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Contents

  • Whats New?
    • Introduction
    • Create a Sim
    • Emotions
    • Neighborhoods
    • Whats Your Story?
    • Building and Designing
    • Is That All?
  • Make a New You
    • Introduction
    • Creating a Sim
  • Get a Job
    • Introduction
    • Choosing a Career
    • Going to Work
    • Michaela the Secret Agent
    • Horace Gets Fired
  • Build Up Those Skills
    • Introduction
    • Skills
    • Child Skills
    • Mentoring Skills
    • Collecting
  • Tour of the Worlds
    • Introduction
    • Willow Creek
    • Oasis Springs
  • Achievements
    • Introduction
    • Careers
    • Player Feats
    • Relationships
    • Sim Feats
    • Skills and Crafting
    • Wealth and Collecting
  • Feelings, Lots of Feelings
    • Introduction
    • Emotions
    • Moodlets
  • I'm Home
    • Introduction
    • Households
    • Moving In
    • Pre-Made Households and Homes
    • Willow Creek
    • Oasis Springs
  • Architecture and Design
    • Introduction
    • Build Mode
    • Building a House
    • Furnishing and Decorating
    • Building Venues
  • Meet Other People
    • Introduction
    • Relationships and Socializing
    • Events
    • Families
    • Aging
    • Death
  • Sharing
    • Introduction
    • The Gallery
  • I Need More Stuff
    • Introduction
    • Living Room
    • Kitchen
    • Dining Room
    • Bedroom
    • Bathroom
    • Study
    • Kids Room
    • Multi-Room Objects
    • Hobbies and Skills
    • Outdoors and Landscaping
    • Styled Rooms
    • Home Design
  • Living the Sim Life
    • Introduction
    • Meeting Your Needs
    • Michaelas Life
    • Aspirations
    • Whims
    • Spending Satisfaction Points

The Sims 4 Guide › Build Up Those Skills

Introduction

As you learned in the previous chapter, skills are a vital part of careers. You must learn skills and then develop them to be promoted. In addition, many skills are related to hobbies for Sims or for improving their quality of life. Therefore, your Sims are going to be spending a lot of time working on skills—and the more they learn and develop, the more opportunities and possibilities that they have in life. Later in this chapter you can also find information about the new mentoring ability, and because hobbies are a part of skills, the lowdown on collecting things is also covered.

Tip

Several skills can provide Fun for a Sim’s needs or can be developed while socializing. Therefore, if your Sims need to do something to meet a need, try to develop a skill at the same time. Your Sims have a limited lifespan, so it is important to accomplish as much as possible. If you can double up on things, so much the better.

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