A new tool from LinkedIn lets you find the top skills employers want candidates to have for almost any job role.
Additionally, if you need a skill and don’t have it, the tool will guide you to resources that can be used to develop that skill.
LinkedIn’s Future of Skills data tool will show you how job requirements have changed from 2015 to 2021.
According to a recent analysis by LinkedIn, the top skills for specific roles changed by about 25% from 2015 to today, and could increase to 40% by 2025.
Here’s how to use LinkedIn’s new tools to discover the skills you need to be a standout candidate when applying for your next job.
Alternatively, this tool can be used to keep your skills up to date, increasing your value in your current role.
LinkedIn’s future skills tool
Start, navigation Future Tools for Skills and scroll all the way to the bottom until you reach the section shown in the screenshot below.
You can search for top skills by industry or job title, then you can filter those results by country.
The tool will show a comparison of the top skills needed today and the top skills needed in 2015.
You will also get the following analytics:
- How much has the top skill changed?
- Which top skills are new
- Which top skills are the same
- Which top skills are rising or falling in importance
Here are the job titles displayed by the Future Skills Tool Search Engine Optimization Specialist inside America.
Screenshot via: linkedin.github.io/future-of-skills, March 2022.As you can see in the example above, the large number of top skills required are marked as new.
This means that more employers are looking for candidates with these skills today than in 2015.
If you want to increase your chances of being hired as an SEO expert this year, these are the skills you should have.
Suppose you don’t have all the skills. For example, maybe you have almost all of them, but you are not familiar with SEMrush.
What you can do now is click on SEMrush and LinkedIn will take you to select the relevant course of study.
Screenshot via: LinkedIn.com/learning, March 2022.All LinkedIn users can get a one-month free trial to access any and all learning courses offered on the site.
After that, you need to pay a monthly fee to take the course, or you can pay for a single course and access it anytime.
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LinkedIn’s Future Of Skills tool is a comprehensive resource of top-level skills that candidates in almost any industry or role need.
It can also be used by employers if they are hiring for a position and aren’t sure what skills to look for.
This is probably the most valuable collection of data LinkedIn has on top job skills.
LinkedIn regularly publishes annual reports on top jobs and job skills, but they never contain as much data as you can find with the Future of Skills tool.
resource: The future of LinkedIn skills
