Week 2 - MKTG347 - Hot Skills for Employment

Getting a job is no easy task, especially nowadays. Any job you take has requirements and qualifications that come along with it. So it is a good idea to do some research to find out what they are and what will get you on the right path to get the job you seek. You see there can be hundreds of people applying for a position and you need to stand out. This is when doing research ahead of time will pay off.

As time goes on new skills are acquired from employees in order to accommodate to the development in technology and any other innovations. According to LinkedIn, some of the hottest skills of 2015 that can get you hired in 2016 are cloud and distributed computing, statistical analysis and data mining, and marketing campaign management. So as you can see involves technology and business. Hence, anyone going into the college, in college, or out of college should consider learning such skills like these to ensure you of being able to find future employment. If it comes to be maybe these skills don’t necessarily suit your prefer field of interest, but it can be in your interest to learn the skill for emergency purposes.

Try to stay on top of the evolvement of the workforce, things change as time goes on and being an employer you can be expendable. For example, when the introduction of computers came along employers being exposed to this new technology had to learn this new skill otherwise they would be gone. Anyone that didn’t keep up was left behind and it became harder for them to find employment in areas of preference. Same thing here, you need be up-to-date with the development of the workforce and what employees are looking for. This doesn’t take much time and it is well worth it in the long run.

Check out this link (http://blog.linkedin.com/2016/01/12/the-25-skills-that-can-get-you-hired-in-2016/) for some for the recent hot skills that can get you hired and do some further research of your own.