With the unemployment rate at historic lows and an estimated 7 million job openings, companies are having a tough time sticking to stringent skills requirements. With fewer people out looking for work, they’re looking for parallel experiences and a combination of hard skills and soft skills that complement the job’s responsibilities. Here. according to a recent LinkedIn survey, are the top five hard skills and soft skills companies are looking for today.
Here are the 5 most in-demand soft skills in 2019:
5. Time Management Recommended courses: Tony Schwartz on Managing Your Energy for Sustainable High Performance, Finding Your Time Management Style, Time Management for Managers4. Adaptability Recommended courses: Strategic Agility, Developing Adaptable Employees, Developing Adaptability as a Manager3. Collaboration Recommended courses: Collaboration Principles and Process, Being an effective team member, Business Collaboration in the Modern Workplace2. Persuasion Recommended courses: Persuading Others, Becoming A Thought Leader, Advanced Consumer Behavior1. Creativity Recommended courses: Creativity Bootcamp, The Five-Step Creative Process, Creativity: Generate Ideas in Greater Quantity and Quality
Here are the 5 most in-demand hard skills in 2019:
5. UX Design Recommended courses: UX Foundations: Multidevice Design, UX Design: 01 Overview, UX Research for Agile Teams4. People Management Recommended courses: Motivating and Engaging Employees, Managing Team Conflict, Leading with Purpose3. Analytical Reasoning Recommended courses: Making Decisions, Decision Making Strategies, Executive Decision Making2. Artificial Intelligence Recommended courses: Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning, Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Classification Modeling1. Cloud ComputingRecommended courses: Learning Cloud Computing: Networking, Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers, AWS for Architects: Advanced Security