The top 10 soft skills of the ideal job seeker from Linkedin.

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Today we are sharing the situation in the US labor market.

Narrative:

What soft skills employers want to see in future employees according to Linkedin analysis.
Where to start learning about technology today?
What skills to develop from childhood?

Soft skills

Back in February, Linkedin investigated which soft skills are the most relevant in 2024. Why do we talk about soft-skills first?

In 2024, technology has arrived at a point where AI can write code in any programming language and find the smallest abnormalities in a medical scan.

However, either system still suffers from "hallucinations", where delusional answers look like plausible ones, and has difficulty processing multiple input types like "picture+text".

Any even the smartest program needs someone who can correct "hallucinations," separate credible and unreliable sources, set goals, listen to the client's wishes, formulate goals, and make flexible plans.

Adaptive professionals with a range of soft skills are suitable for such tasks.

The list of such skills included:

Communication - the skill of active listening, speaking intelligently and within the scope of the issue you are discussing.
Customer service is the skill of "taking care" of those who have chosen you.
Leadership is the skill of influencing people.
Project management is a combination of time management, goal tracking, and agile scheduling.
Management - a mix of skills that enhance the effectiveness of the department/team/brand/etc.
Analytics - the ability to gather and process large amounts of information, then draw conclusions.
Teamwork is a skill where besides correct communication we add the ability to delegate tasks and trust colleagues,
Sales - knowing what segment the product is in, how the user makes a buying decision, ability to communicate product information.
Problem solving - investigate, find the root of the problem, take effective action to fix, work on mistakes.
Conducting research - the skill of making a hypothesis and finding confirmation or refutation of it.

What about technical skills?

Entrepreneur published The top 10 technical skills with the highest demand by employers for Indeed.

The list includes Python, SQL, AWS, Robotics, Linux, Java, JavaScript, Azure, C#, C++

And basic gadget skills are needed for almost any specialty nowadays.

So what skills should be mastered from childhood?

Technology is developing so fast that it is hard to guess what professions will be relevant in 10-15 years.

At the time of 2019 84% adolescents and 42% children 8 to 12 years old already had personal gadgets.

But in addition to technical literacy, it is important to teach children technical hygiene.

In Canada back in 2015, they did a study that the concentration of the average person dropped from 12 seconds to 8 seconds between 2000 and 2013. Notably, the concentration of a goldfish is 9 seconds.

Top 5 skills to start with in childhood and how to teach them?

We've already assumed technological literacy. But we don't forget parental supervision, breaks, alternating with different chores, board games and books.
Concentration. Remember the goldfish.
Logic, which will be the foundation for critical thinking.
Memory, long-term and short-term. We use it to form new neural connections all the time.
Creativity. The most fun childhood skill that adults so often wish they had.