Skill Trends for 2024
Intro
The job market is constantly evolving. As some occupations lose popularity, others gain an edge. Regardless of your field, having certain career skills can make a difference in your success. Knowing which qualities are most in-demand can be helpful as you carve out your career path.
All the findings in this post are referred from a 2024 Job Skills report from Coursera. This report presents the fastest-growing digital and human skills on Coursera entering 2024. Of the more than 113 million total learners on the Coursera platform, this report specifically draws on insights from Coursera’s 4 million enterprise learners across 3,000 businesses, 3,600 higher education institutions, and governments in over 100 countries.
Skill Trends for 2024
1. 🌟 Leadership skills for supporting teams through organizational change are a growing priority.
2. 🤖 AI-related skills are driving record-breaking course enrollments
3. 👩💻 Demand is surging for cybersecurity and information security skills.
4. 👩💻 The fastest-growing skills are business skills.
5. 📈 Skills for understanding and communicating data continue to be among the fastest-growing
6. 🌐 Demand for web development and computing skills remains high.
7. 📄 Skills for providing oversight and compliance are increasingly essential
8. 🚀 Curated learning paths, like Professional Certificates and Specializations, are driving the largest skill rank changes.
Fastest Growing Skills: Overall
1. 💳 E-commerce: Buy and sell products or services through digital channels.
2. 📺 Media Strategy & Planning: Determine the objectives, strategy and plan for delivering the right content to audiences.
3. 🛡️ System Security: Secure the networks and resources of your organization.
4. 🔎 Search Engine Optimization: Optimize website content for the best possible search engine ranking.
5. 🤝 Customer Success: Identify opportunities and proactively solve 6. problems for customers to ensure their continued success.
6. 🗂️ Power BI: Use Power BI to surface data insights.
7. 💻 Linux: Use the Linux operating system for all devices.
8. 🎯 Systems Design: Define the architecture, product design, modules, interfaces, and data to satisfy specified requirements.
9. ✍️ Audit: Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, financial, and governance processes.
10. 📺 Marketing Management: Promote and advertise a business using different tools and strategies.
Fastest-Growing Leadership Skills
1. 🧑🤝🧑 People Management: Build successful teams and optimize talent to improve overall business results
2. 🤝 Negotiation: Reach mutually acceptable agreements using techniques like active listening and trading concessions.
3. 🔈 Influencing: Get others to see your point of view using techniques like establishing trust and offering reciprocity.
4. 🧑🏻⚕️ Employee Relations: Create and maintain positive relationships with employees to improve employee morale and engagement.
5. 🧑🏻🚀 People Development: Realize the value of personnel—from training and evaluation to feedback and incentives.
