LinkedIn has shared new data about the top skills sought after by today’s employers.
The LinkedIn team says, “Hard skills can help you get a recruiter’s attention, but soft skills can help you land the job. Soft skills are in demand across industries. In fact, 45% of all LinkedIn Premium jobs posted within the past 3 months mention the importance of communication skills. From your colleagues’ perspective, more than 3 in 5 (61%) of professionals say soft skills in the workplace are just as important as hard skills.
Since the pandemic, these ‘people skills’, have become more powerful than ever. Linda Jingfang Cai, VP of talent development at Linkedin, calls soft skills, “the currency of the future workplace”.
We looked at the top trending skills added to LinkedIn profiles across all professionals. These are the soft skills that showed up the most. Learn the top trending soft skills today to ensure you have the skillset for what’s next. Dive into the list and courses to learn them for free until September 30, 2022.”