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:

[fulltlt]

Not being a white male and over X years old where X gets lower every year.

[day10]

OK - where did you go to get Scrum Master for $100? :-)

[MrB]

Otherwise known as “being a salesman”.

Everyone has to “sell” their skills.

[MrB]

Actually, those are all over the list.
Middleware, User Interface design, web architecture, etc.

[billhilly]

29. Being able to spell.

[kvanbrunt2]

6 sigma is about a 25 year old buzz word. It was used at GE in the 90’s

[stephenjohnbanker]

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

Wash D.C. politicians were not included.

[MrB]

But that’s DEFINITELY where all the money in this country is going.

[Night Hides Not]

What happened to accounting?

[Dagnabitt]

That list is racist.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The GOPe wrote themselves hundreds of billions in checks, then left to celebrate.

[Gideon7]

The demand for WIMP (C# and .NET/ASPX, IIS and MSSQL) is not as high as for LAMP, but it’s there. It’s more of a niche skillset, but that means it consequently demands and gets a higher salary scale.

MVVM/MVC is not for the squeemish and requires a lot of discipline. DB design is also big. The biggest bucks go to DBAs who know relational theory and how to design a properly normalized DB schema or can conjur up complex ad hoc searches for data mining in multi-axis analytics.

[Zeppo]

“Crony”.

[CodeToad]

Those are number 1 and 2.

[TADSLOS]

What happened to accounting?

Accounting is SO 1980s. Accounting presumes accountability will be enforced. It's still a growth job in the IRS though, especially if you are into auditing the Tea Party.

[9YearLurker]

Marketing? Recruiting?

For most of the computer-related stuff, all that is needed is a logical mind and a willingness to learn and work dull programming languages.

(Sure, some data mining analysis and serious econ need serious math.)

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah..

[SeekAndFind]

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

Isn’t that under the list of Web Architecture and Development Framework or User Interface Design?

[caver]

At my workplace the 6Sigma training is 5 weeks long.

[Night Hides Not]

I'm heading into retirement in a couple of years (am now a federal auditor). That is, until the next banking crisis and the FDIC ramps back up.

Did tax return prep for 20+ years, and I loved doing battle with the IRS. Still, it got boring, thanks to all the added regulations and licensing requirements.

I no longer have a career...just a job and I can live with that. I'll find something to keep me busy when I "retire", but it will be of my choosing.