What are the most in-demand skills for the future?
What should you learn if you want to make sure that the trends towards A.I.
and automation have absolutely no impact in your life
and that there is no worry for unemployment in the next ten years?
Well, in this video, we are going through a very recently published report
where Udemy covers all we need to know about
the most in-demand skills for the future in their 2022 workplace report.
So let's dove it in this piece of research.
Udemy split the skills that they want to propose
as the most in-demand for the future into three categories.
First of all, they talk about power skills and they want to really make
a stand in the sense that these skills are nothing soft.
There's really nothing soft about these skills.
And that's why they call them power skills.
And they believe that these skills are absolutely instrumental
for any employee or any individuals success in the workforce,
no matter whether that is as an employee or as a contractor or freelancer.
So really, these power skills are absolutely critical.
The second category that they cover, they call them tactical skills.
And we will go into more depth into what these specifically are
because they are more, let's say, function specific or career path specific.
And then the third category that they cover is technical skills.
And here we're going to go in-depth on what kind of technology
skills they believe will be really critical in the future.
So let's take them one by one.
All right, guys, let's start from the top.
So what do Udemy include under this power skills category?
Well, first off, we're talking about communication and teamwork.
And this is so, so key, especially in this environment
of hybrid work or remote work, when we have to deal with Zoom
calls or teams calls or, you know, virtual calls all day long.
Communication skills are so important when you're face to face
with somebody, you can find ways to get on the same page.
But when you work remotely and you have to get along
only via emails or instant messaging or virtual calls,
then absolutely communication is such an important skill for success.
Now, the next category, the next type of skill that Udemy believe
is so, so crucial under this power skills category is leadership and management.
And this is not only because more and more people
choose to work in these distributed teams.
And obviously there is a need for some of them to step up
and take over this role of a leader or a manager.
But this skill is so important to make sure that you can
handle teams that are very, very diverse
and very geographically distributed as well.
Now, the next type of skill that is so important
under the category of power skills is productivity and collaboration.
And this goes really hand-in-hand with the previous two,
especially in this environment that is hybrid
or mostly remote collaboration and productivity are key.
It has been shown multiple times
that since the you know, the last two years
have started and most people have been working remotely.
Productivity has decreased.
People are working longer, but they are able to do less
because of all the distractions that happen at home, because of
all the stress that has been accumulating and because of the isolation.
So productivity is such an important element
because nobody wants to spend hours on end getting their job done.
You want to
make sure that you use your time wisely and that you are highly productive
with the time you choose to dedicate to working.
So productivity is really, really key.
And the last but not least, we're talking about personal development and wellness.
And again, this one is very much connected to this hybrid or remote
work environment that we've all been part of for the last two years.
Wellness is really critical, and I'm seeing lots of companies
putting so much focus on their employees well-being and investing in
all sorts of support that they can offer their employees from yoga.
To meditation, encouraging them to go
and do sports and so forth, but also personal development.
It has become so important because when you don't grow, you die literally.
That is what I believe and what my mantra has been for a very long time.
If there is no progress, then you don't feel like
there is a reason for you to continue fighting and pushing through.
And that is why personal development, in my opinion, is so important,
because it gives people an opportunity to see beyond the current struggles
and understand that there is an opportunity for growth
and that there is more out there that can be grabbed.
So I definitely agree with the need for personal development
focus and for well-being so that we can all lead
more meaningful, more balanced and happier lives.
Moving to the second category in this really dense report from Udemy,
and this one talks about tactical skills, and I bet you guys
have been looking for these ones because I know you typically
want to get these and in as much detail as possible.
So here we go.
In terms of tactical skills, what Udemy believe
to be a really, really in demand in the coming years.
First off, it's business intelligence, and here
we're talking about the ability to make sense of data.
We can go into lots of detail about what business intelligence is.
I've talked about it
in many of my previous videos and I do it in my work every single day.
I am a big fan of using data and intelligence to make sense of
what is going on in a business, and I use that religiously
data is the one thing that you can trust and if you know how to use it,
the insights you can get are incredible and companies are waking up
to see the value of data, and they are waking up
to see the importance of having very, very talented
and highly skilled business intelligence specialists who are able to provide them
with that kind of insight and then with recommendations
that companies and businesses can use to run their businesses
better, to make more money, to save costs and to impact more people.
Up next is design end user experience or UX?
And again, I've talked about this one.
I can fully agree with the importance of this type
of work and service in the workplace.
This can be done, of course, as an employee or as a contractor or freelancer.
And it is so, so important, especially with so many businesses
and companies taking their operations online.
There is such an importance for design and creativity
in the way that those services are presented online.
In the way that their funnels and lead generation
funnels are
created and the way that they take customers through
that experience and through those steps within the customer journey.
So ability to create and design
very compelling user experience and beautifully designed
journeys is definitely here to stay and will be in very high demand.
Up next, finance in accounting.
I mean, nobody can ever say that
finance will go away because money is important to everybody.
All businesses care about the way they spend their money
and how they can either save them or make more of them.
So finance and accounting is definitely here to stay.
I fully agree.
I would not necessarily agree that bookkeeping could be here to stay
because that is an aspect that can be a lot easier automated.
So I wouldn't necessarily recommend
that you look into bookkeeping, but that might be the first step
you need to take if you want to pursue a career in finance.
Next type of skill is H.R.
and talent management.
And with all the power skills that we've talked about earlier on,
I can absolutely see the importance for talented H.R.
and talent management individuals who can offer this.
Again, either as a contractor or as an employee of a company,
managing a company's workforce, be that full time employees or contractors
is so important, especially with the overwhelming
amount of work and with the isolation and the remote working, talented H.R.
managers and talent managers are really, really key to making sure that they keep
the employee experience really smooth
and that people enjoy working for that company.
I know I put a lot of effort into this with my own teams,
and I can definitely see the importance of this kind of service.
Next on the list is Project Management.
And again, I can definitely see the importance of this kind of services
and this kind of into
individuals who are trained and certified as project managers.
And this is because nowadays for productivity purposes,
a lot of work has been dialed down into small projects.
And basically everything has become a project, even in sales,
even in marketing, everything can be dial down
into a project, and you need people who know how to manage
projects properly in order to ensure the success of that project.
So definitely consider
project management if that is something that you are thinking about.
Go for it.
And then last but not least, in this category,
we're talking about sales and customer experience.
I mean, it goes without saying everybody needs sales, right?
Every business needs to sell, otherwise they make no money.
So they do need talented people who are able to sell.
Now, the way that the sales process goes can be done in so many ways.
So here I'm not just talking about somebody sitting at a register
and selling.
There are probably tons of different kinds of sales,
from digital sales to in-person sales to closers to sales scriptwriters.
There's lots
and lots of opportunity in this space in terms of sales and customer experience.
And then when it comes to customer experience, again,
there is so much that can be done.
So many companies taking their businesses online
and at every stage in the customer journey, there are bottlenecks
and there are support teams that are trained to help customers
go smoothly and flawlessly
through that customer experience, through that funnel.
The importance of customer experience is so, so critical.
And I see so many companies really dialing down and focusing on
the importance of the customer experience they offer to all of their customers.
Now we've come to category number three, and here we're talking about
technical skills.
All of these are related to technology, and I could not agree more with you.
To me, the importance of getting technology skills is
so, so high and there is such a huge gap in terms of people trained
and certified for technology and having really good technical skills.
So absolutely, if you are into computers and technology,
do consider one of the following, because there will be absolutely
no concern for you moving forward on whether you will have work
because people are dying, they're killing to get someone like you
when you really are able to provide high quality services.
So what am I talking about when it comes to technical skills?
Well, Udemy are listing here
five categories and they start with cloud computing.
And I mean it goes without saying cloud technologies are here to stay.
No matter if we're talking about Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web
Services or Google Cloud, these three at least are here to stay and are.
There are lots of certifications that you can get
if you want to really get jobs, be that, as I said, as a full time employee
or as a freelancer when it comes to cloud computing.
So look into the certifications for these three big players in the cloud space
and you will have no worry in the world in terms of getting work.
Up next on the list we are talking about cybersecurity.
Security is such an important aspect in the technology world
because we are talking about lots of data nowadays with the amount of data
that is available and that is being transacted in the cloud.
There is a high need for security
specialists who are able to ensure
that a company's data is protected, it is safe, and it follows
all the regulations with GDPR and lots of other different regulations that exist.
It is so, so important to have this kind of specialist.
But I absolutely agree with you to me in the importance of having
highly trained security individuals.
The third type of technology skill that Udemy report talks
about is data science and this one goes hand-in-hand with business intelligence.
The one that I've talked about just a little bit ago, data
science is the use of data and building algorithms and building
statistical models in order to extract business insights.
So a business intelligence and a data scientist individual
will always be working together in order to make sure that the data
that is being used is properly included in the models
and the insights that are being extracted give the best quality value
within a customer's or a business's operations.
Up next, the Udemy report
talks about IT operations, and again, this one makes a lot of sense.
There is so high, such high need for IT
operations, skilled professionals and individuals.
That is because departments of technology or I.T.
are becoming bigger and bigger, and projects within
it are becoming more and more.
Every company is a technology company
nowadays that any business that wants to continue
being there in the next ten years, they have to be present online.
They have to have lots of technology embedded into their operations.
So that is why it operations is so, so key.
And obviously, last but not least, software development,
we have lots of different languages that we can look into
so I'm not going to go
into that level of detail, but any type of software development,
especially if we're talking about cloud computing,
will be in high demand in the future.
And you have lots and lots of opportunity ahead of you.
And if you guys want more details in terms of what certifications
should you be getting to make sure that not only do you have these skills,
but you can prove authority,
then make sure you go
ahead and watch this video because I talked about the most in-demand
certifications nowadays and that you can explore
we talk about everything you need to know
about those certifications, how much money you can expect to make,
where you can take them, and much, much more.
Thank you so, so much writing.
I hope you enjoy today's video. I'll see you next time. Find