The Top 10 Skills That Got People Hired This Year, According To LinkedIn

Business Insider ^ | 12/18/2014 | JILLIAN D'ONFRO

[SeekAndFind]

>With more than 330 million people using the service to list their resumes, find jobs, or find new hires, LinkedIn has a lot of data about the job market.

To close out 2014, the company released a list of the top skills people who got hired this year had listed on their profiles and that recruiters searched for the most.

These are the 10 skills that got people jobs this year:

[SeekAndFind]

From Linkedin:

[blueunicorn6]

26. Being related to the boss.
27. Being a suck up.

[fatez]

Imagine that, almost all of these jobs require a deep knowledge of math...

[DaxtonBrown]

I think they left off “Hooker” and “Gold digger”.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Imagine that, almost all of these jobs require a deep knowledge of math...”

Yup, perfect for the French literature major. /sarc

[Bon mots]

Thanks! Great post!

I am in the market for a job and it’s funny how stupid little certificates make a difference.

I spent 2 years of my life and thousands of dollars to get an MBA. It doesn’t make the phone ring.
I spent 3 days and $100.00 to get qualified as a “Scrum Master” and the phone rings off the hook.

Same for a “PMP” qualification or “Prince2” in the UK.
Hoping to land something soon...

[Resolute Conservative]

Not being a white male.

[thirst4truth]

My daughter's has a new job offer in her in box every week, she has listed her skills on LinkedIn as the #1 skill. She is a digital analyst and everybody it seems wants her skills.

She graduated college in 2007, in Business, emphasis in marketing. She is the one who developed her analyst skills with each new job she took. Gets a big raise with every job offer and is now up to $90,000 a year, she is 29.

[blueunicorn6]

You’re right.

[TADSLOS]

LMAO.

[Albion Wilde]

27. Being a suck up.

This one is always in the Top Ten.

And let me add:
28. Baing a minority.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I don’t know if I’d say “deep”.

[Dr. Thorne]

Number 1 skill: Bullsh!t Artist

[Alex Murphy]

Interesting - the first and second skills are the ones my employer is pushing us to learn.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Meanwhile, I guess just engineering does not make the list.

Yup, I am still out of a job. 2 interviews in the next few days, but we’ll see. It has been a rough year.

[vpintheak]

All need math and mad computer skills. Hmm...

[the OlLine Rebel]

If I do not get a job soon, my next “development” objective is to take a 6Sigma class, maybe all of 5 days.

People love that nonsense.

Buzzwords of the year, should be the list.

[Mr. K]

I dont see C# or .NET or WPF MVVM up there...

which seems odd- I am getting 5-10 calls per week

[Democrat_media]

that’s because those skills are actually needed by businesses and the world. most of us go to gov school for 12 years. learn nothing we can use. i went many more years to gov funded state university . got a piece of paper. learned nothing i could use to make a living or money . many years wasted .but the media said all we needed was that piece of paper from college. they lied .