Top Skills to Be Learned in 2020

Tech skills are currently in demand in the workforce. This demand is tremendously increasing due to society’s transition to digital marketing, e-commerce, and more. 

That’s according to Udemy’s 2020 Workplace Learning Trends Report, which indicates workers across some of the largest industries are heavily focused on learning data science and technology skills.

Here are the top five trending skills for software engineers, marketers, sales professionals, and finance professionals:

Software engineering

1. Python: Programming language used in software development, infrastructure management, and data analysis
2. React: JavaScript library for building user interfaces
3. Docker: Open-source platform used to create software packages
4. Java: Programming language and computing platform
5. JavaScript: Programming language primarily used for interactive web design

Marketing

1. Digital marketing: Advertising products or services through search engines, websites, social media, and mobile apps
2. Python: Programming language used in software development, infrastructure management, and data analysis
3. Web development: Writing markup and coding to build a website or application
4. SQL: Programming language that allows users to manage databases
5. Google Ads: Online advertising platform developed by Google

Sales

1. Sales skills: Communication skills such as negotiation or storytelling used to facilitate a business transaction
2. Excel: Spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft used for calculations, graphs and statistical analysis
3. Leadership: Providing guidance within an organization
4. Web development: Writing markup and coding to build a website or application
5. Public speaking: Communicating information through a presentation

Finance

1. Excel: Spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft used for calculations, graphs and statistical analysis
2. SQL: Programming language that allows users to manage databases
3. Financial analysis: Using company financial data to assess performance and make recommendations
4. Tableau: Data visualization tool
5. Leadership: Providing guidance within an organization

Planning to learn these skills? Why not. The Internet is a resource of endless information and free courses that can help you acquire these skills.

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