LinkedIn highlights the top 10 skills companies seek most

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

Having a professional title and several years of experience are not necessarily the passport to a good job.

The key question is, what do you know to do? And from then on the candidate for a job must show that beyond being an engineer, programmer or financial expert, he/she has the key skills that a company is looking for.

And those skills do cross into different professions and can be used to your advantage, according to a study published by the social network to find LinkedIn work.

According to the analysis, employers are looking for a combination of "soft skills" (interpersonal relationships, teamwork) and "hard skills" (the specific skills and knowledge to play a role), with creativity at the top of the list.

An idea that coincides with the report "The future of work" of the World Economic Forum, which indicates that initiative, originality and critical thinking will be increasingly valued, as technological advances are transforming the labor market at a dizzy speed.

These skills include:

• Soft skills
• Creativity
• Persuasion
• Collaboration
• Adaptability
• Time management
• Hard skills
• Handling data in the cloud
• Artificial intelligence
• Analytical reasoning
• Persons handling
• User Experience Design (Or the "UX design", known as the design of the user experience, is the ability to adapt technological developments and make them accessible or easy for consumers to interact with.)

The "best" investment in your career

"Improving your soft skills is one of the best investments you can make in your career, as they will never be redundant," wrote Paul Petrone, editor of LinkedIn Learning. "The development of artificial intelligence has made soft skills more and more important, because they are precisely the competences that robots can not automate."

That does not mean that ultra-specialized knowledge is losing ground: the key is in the mix, experts say. And workers, on the other hand, are increasingly interested in acquiring new skills.

That's why the idea that you should never stop studying, train and learn on your own initiative, has taken so much flight.

The fear of "becoming obsolete" has been installed in workplaces and, with the boom of startups and personal ventures, the culture of work has taken a turn of great magnitude in recent years.

In this context, the profile of the work is changing rapidly and the integration of teams with people from different areas is becoming more common.

The study done by LinkedIn included information on the skills that appear in the profiles of people who use the professional network and who get jobs with the highest salaries, and used data from cities with at least 100,000 registered members.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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