Amidst the titanic shifts in employment and career choices, as a result of the pandemic, LinkedIn is now focused on helping its members maximize their job opportunities. To do this, LinkedIn has highlighted the latest ‘in-demand’ skills, as listed in LinkedIn job ads. LinkedIn is also launching a new overview of job postings within your network to help connect you to opportunities among the people and businesses you know.

How Demanding 

Let’s first look at in-demand skills. As part of its broader effort to integrate more career education, thus connecting its members to opportunities, LinkedIn has shared new research into rising skills as observed within the LinkedIn job ads.

“We compared the top skills professionals had in 2015 with those for the same jobs today and identified the skills that rose to the top – the top skills in demand today.”

LinkedIn has narrowed the list down to the top 20 skills in-demand, which were featured in more than three-quarters of jobs posted globally in the app over the last three months. You can find the learning courses associated with these skills here. It’s a pretty intuitive layout, so we recommend going over each item carefully to get optimum insight. Various digital marketing and related skills make this list, so it might be worth looking into and subscribing to the relevant platforms, pages, or newsletters, in accordance with LinkedIn’s material.

To add to this new overview, LinkedIn is also hosting a series of virtual events where members can engage with LinkedIn Learning instructors and hear more about how skills for jobs are evolving, along with tips on how they can lean into these trends. The virtual events will be held from September 12th – 16th.

Lastly, LinkedIn’s also adding a new ‘Who’s Hiring In Your Network’ overview, which will help users stay across potential career opportunities among those they know.

“Keeping in touch with your network is crucial, and many are increasingly turning to their online communities for help. More than one-third of job-seeking LinkedIn members in the US said they reached out to someone in their network to discuss their career plans. But it can be challenging to know who’s hiring or where to start.”

This is addressed by the new ‘Who’s Hiring In Your Network’ element, with a dedicated space in the ‘Jobs’ tab that will showcase opportunities among your peers. This could be a good way to stay on top of new opportunities and openings, helping you maximize the value of your LinkedIn network.

The Wrap

The most significant part of this ‘update’ is the magnitude of the insights that it carries – these are some of the best, if not the best, direct peeks into what’s currently being looked at the most on LinkedIn. It’s the closest we could get to a real-time feed into LinkedIn’s tracking and monitoring. Whether you’re considering a career shift or would just want to play off of the trends on LinkedIn, this data is well worth the consideration.

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