The Most in-demand skills for 2023, according to Professional Network Site LinkedIn

ComputerWorld ^ | 03/06/2023 | Lucal Mearian

[SeekAndFind]

The online job and social site listed the top skills in areas such as IT, as well as engineering, recruiting, sales, and marketing.

LinkedIn today released an exhaustive list of skills employers prioritize when recruiting, posting, and hiring for jobs on the company's website.

“It's true that topics like layoffs are trending on LinkedIn and conversations around 'recession' are up nearly 900% since last year," the company said in the report. "The rate of global LinkedIn member job change has flatlined for the first time since March 2021. No matter the setback, looming re-org, or change in strategy, learning in-demand skills can help individuals and teams reach their career goals in 2023, even in the face of a tough macro environment.”

LinkedIn’s list includes both general skills, such as overall hard skills for any marketplace, and expertise required by specific industries, such as technology. The company also pointed to its online training courses for the skills it listed.

When it came to the top 10 overall hard skills, IT led the list and filled most of the top 10 slots.

Number one on that list? Software development “that companies need to build the products that we depend on in our personal and professional lives,” LinkedIn said. Data management skills are also prominent. Skills such as SQL (No. 2 on the list) help companies manage and make sense of data across the business, and they remain in high demand.

The other hard skills in the top 10 are:

• Finance (such as the ability to understand corporate financial statements).
• Python (Programming Language).
• Java.
• Data Analysis.
• JavaScript.
• Cloud Computing (core concepts, etc.).
• Operations (such as quality management for operational excellence).
• Customer Relationship Management (such as Saleforce training).

[SeekAndFind]

LinkedIn data shows that skill sets for jobs globally have changed by around 25% since 2015, with this number expected to double by 2027. Much of this change has been driven by new technologies emerging and altering how we all get our jobs done. Not everyone is a tech professional, but everyone can become tech fluent."

Cloud computing skills showed up on more than market in LinkedIn's most coveted skills.

With that in mind, the top hot skills for IT work are:

• Management.
• SQL (experience).
• Microsoft Office (Excel essential training, Office 365, etc.).
• Project Management.
• Analytical Skills (basic data analytic skills).
• Communication (such as effective technical communication skills).
• Customer Service (IT service desk skills).
• Leadership (for first time managers, etc.).
• Cloud Computing.
• Python (Programming Language).

Also, in the top 10 sought-after skills list for engineering jobs:

SQL.
Python (Programming Language).
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
HTML.
Management.
Cloud Computing.
Git (and GitHub).
C++.

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College degree requrements are also fading from LinkedIn job postings.

Not only are people eager to be seen for the skills they have, not just the degree they have (or don’t), but hirers are realizing that by putting skills at the center of recruitment and defining their open roles by the skills needed to do the job, they can find better matches and tap into more diverse talent pools."

In the US, job postings that don’t have degree requirements are up from 15% in January 2020 to 24% in 2022, according to Raman. And employers are increasingly looking beyond who a job candidate knows or what school they attended to find great talent; more than 45% of hirers on LinkedIn now explicitly use skills data to fill their roles.

"While degrees are not going away anytime soon, more employers are realizing that by just filtering candidates through this narrow lens, they actually miss out on great skilled candidates that are out there ready to do the job,

[jroehl]

LinkedIn is a spam robot.

[nwrep]

ping

[Maine Mariner]

One skill that is in demand: a good understanding of logistics and global supply chain management.

Recent graduates in those field have been getting two or three job offers at good starting salaries.

[frank ballenger]

Some ideas based on college class trends....

Identifying and Fighting Toxic Masculinity

Site Selection For Right Winger Concentration Camps

Abortions
(In Michigan the new Constitutional amendment allows a “health practitioner” to perform abortions without being impeded or curtailed and the person is protected from civil charges if the woman dies from malpractice or effects of the abortion.)

[lurk]

Plumbers, electricians and HVAC techs are always in demand. Especially when today’s old guys retire.

[Gman]

Our son is about to graduate with a degree in Urban Planning; he’s already being contacted.

[SuperLuminal]

Faggotry Supervisor?

[dfwgator]

The two most important skills are always:

1. The ability to BS.
2. The ability to detect BS.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Did he specialize in 15 Minute Cities and the logistics of bug meal delivery via autonomous bug cars?

[Nervous Tick]

You’re hired! When can you start? :-)

[Mr. Jeeves]

LinkedIn features a shocking number of unqualified posters trying to pretend they are somebody.

[CFW]

pinging Laz based upon his earlier post.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4136149/posts

[CFW]

Based on the media’s reporting, I thought “insurrectionist” and “white supremacists” were in the greatest demand. They seem to be looking for them everywhere!

[rellic]

Pretty insulting.
I design program languages.
I can teach a 8 year old how to program,
the stuff I designed.
Computer science BS class of 90.
I remember the Dean of the dept deriding me,
“you are a scientist not an engineer”.
I made my living as an engineer, but I’m a Scientist
by formal education.

[joma89]

Ref you tagline, I now know that the only way not to end up burning in the camps was not to kill one or two government soldiers but instead one needed to kill over half their neighbors and so called friends. It was the friends and neighbors who ultimately were the foot soldiers of the state. The last three years proved that beyond a doubt.

[goodnesswins]

Around here, construction workers are in demand, and teens who would like to earn a little cash doing odd jobs, too.

[dfwgator]

Around here, construction workers are in demand, and teens who would like to earn a little cash doing odd jobs, too.

[isthisnickcool]

I’ve had PhD’s in computer science work for me that I had to fire after a couple of hours. IMO coders are born to code. My best people are what I call “Mutts”, mutts are guys with no computer science degree who can code rings around anyone else.

And yea, I said “guys”.