Top 10 Job Skills During a Post-Covid Situation

06Jan,2021
By Sonam Satapathy

During this COVID-19 pandemic era, most of us are at home. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a curveball that has brought the entire world to its knee. With lockdowns and social distancing, we are far away from the industries and have started working from our place. And technology has become that savior. This pandemic outbreak has taught us the other side of the internet besides entertainment, which includes work from home, shopping from home, etc. The world will witness a lot of changes, especially in the workplaces, and it is extremely unlikely that things will go back to the era before, exactly the way they were. 

 

Here are the 10 most demanding job skills that are likely to be in high demand in the upcoming post-coronavirus world.

1. Adaptability and Flexibility:

The ways companies were operating before the pandemic outbreak is going to change forever. The world was already changing technically but the pandemic gave acceleration to it. If someone wants to that success in his/her career and job during a post-coronavirus-world, then he/she will need to be adapt to the evolving workplaces and must have the flexibility to continuously update their skills according to the need of the industry.

2. Creativity and Innovation:

Creativity and Innovation are two constantly needing a skill set that every company wants from its employees. Businesses or start-up organizations that have been able to come up with ways to deliver services physically, now are using the virtual delivery process. Just like this in a post-coronavirus world, we will need to plan new products and ways of working. Human creativity is going to be one of the most essential aspects.

3. Leadership:

We are absolutely not in an era where only managers should take leadership in an organization.So having good leadership skills is not for supervisors or managers but it is all about communicating your vision and strategies along with encouraging others. During this challenging post-pandemic time, it is the most important thing to be self-aware and versatile. It is the new demanding skillset for everyone that every organization craving for.

4. Digital and Coding Skills:

Due to the rapid transformation and digitization of the organizations, you will witness a great demand for professionals with digital skills including web development, coding, and digital marketing. Employees who are able to keep the digital business running and improving during these economic downturns of pandemic timeare going to be on the top of the must-hire list. As all companies are now going to be digitally strong, the opportunities for digitally skilled persons will be in high demand to work in an organization.

5. Critical Thinking:

Critical thinking is the ability that allows them for objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to create a conclusion orjudgment.Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there is a spike in fake news and misrepresentations of data all over the world, and the leaders, businesses, and government personals are trying to shift the blame on each other and divert attention from proper news. So this period is incredibly difficult for the people to know what and who to trust as there are mass confusion and distrust among all.So the professionals who can objectively evaluate information from different sources to determine what is real and accurate will fetch a lot of demand.

6. Data Literacy:

Data is a critical asset for every company because the right data can predict the future of the companies and will be able to serve customers in a better way with the right products and services. The companies that understand the new business trends along with satisfying customer needs will be all successful in a future post-pandemic world. So the professionals with data literacy will be much more appealing to the job prospects of employers than ever before.

7. Tech-savvy:

Even before the Nobel coronavirus outbreak, the growing digital skills was apparently spreading across business worldwide. Around 82 percent of job vacancies require digital skills. And now the pandemic has accelerated the desperation towards the digital skills to help businesses.It has become more aligned with today’s myriad technology era that it is mandatory for almost all to have some sort of technical skill. This fourth revolutionary industry needs you to know every system or platform, computer programming, big data, demonstrating a solid working knowledge of data literacy, the Cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and more.

8. Security and Governance:

Due to this pandemic attack, almost all the organizations are opting for the new working from home system. This system can create security gaps for the industry as the organization doesn’t have the expertise at the place to handle IT security and governance.So you can say that security has arguably never been more important as all the employees are accessing all thesensitiveapplications from their home. Therefore, many organizations will be focusing on security, privacy, and governance during the post-COVID world.

9. Digital Marketing:

As physical distancing has already entered into our life, now people are consuming information online and that’s why digital marketing has become a lifeline for CMOs as it can reduce the expensive marketing spends, follow their customers onlineand drive greater ROI from their marketing policies. So this field will crave greater demand for PPC practitioners, digital brand managers, email marketing specialists, content & SEO experts.

10. Cloud Knowledge:

In this techy world, the Public Cloud has become the backbone of all IT infrastructure. As we see the researcher’s prediction, we can see that the CIOs say almost 78% industry will be needing Cloud knowledge as a top priority. The pandemic situation has accelerated cloud migration even more.
 

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