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🗞️ Most in-demand job skills this year
🧑‍💼 Study finds frontline workers have more anxiety
💻 Layoffs hit Cisco, Paramount, Instacart
📋 Perdue, LaserAway are hiring for TA roles

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This week, LinkedIn released its annual “Most In-Demand Skills” list, revealing the skills business leaders are most looking for when they are hiring. Spoiler alert: The top skill does NOT require experience in AI.

Keep up the chit chat …
… because this year’s most in-demand skill is communication, for the second year in a row. LinkedIn noted that they saw many human-centric “soft skills” (aka “human” or “durable” skills), like communication, as traits employers are looking for. Other skills at the top of the list — customer service, leadership, project management — are said to be business-critical, especially in the age of AI, according to the report.

Human skills > AI.
The survey looked at which skills appeared most in job listings on the platform between May 2023 and October 2023, and also considered how many recent hires on the platform possessed the skill. "I believe we are in the early days of a world of work that is more human than before,” said LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky in a nod to the recent debate over how the emergence of AI will impact jobs. “[This gives] us the chance to do more fulfilling work, and to do that work more easily and effectively with others."

Top skill “of the moment.”
In addition to a high-level look at the overall most in-demand skills, the report analyzed micro-trends by looking at top-rated skills in six-month period from 2022 and compared it to the same period in 2023, to see which skills grew most quickly. The skill that rose to the top with this methodology: Adaptability. “Adaptability is the best way to have agency right now,” said LinkedIn VP Aneesh Raman. “At the core of managing change is building that muscle of adaptability.”

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NUMBERS

Numbers That’ll Make You Think

• 3 — The amount of jobs open per worker in Maryland, a jarring statistic suggesting that pandemic-era worker shortages are still a pressing issue in some U.S. states (Axios)

• 55% — The percentage of adults who say they are burned out from searching for a new job, according to a new survey (CNBC)

• $6.9 billion — The amount of money companies without accessible sites lose to competitors whose sites are accessible, according to a new digital accessibility guide by staffing firm Onward Search (Onward Search)

• 48% — The percentage of companies who cited “building a talent pipeline” as their top priority for 2024, according to a new survey by Symphony Talent (PR Newswire)

• 32% — The percentage of frontline workers who screened positive for generalized anxiety disorder, compared to 24% of non-frontline workers (Unleash)

LAYOFFS

Places For You To Source Fresh Talent

• Tech company Cisco said it would let go of 5% of employees, or around 4,250 people (CNBC)

• Grocery delivery platform Instacart on Tuesday announced it would lay off about 250 employees, or roughly 7% of the company (CNBC)

• Software developer Mozilla cut 60 jobs after naming a new CEO (Bloomberg)

• Media giant Paramount said it would lay off 800 employees (CNN)

• Data company Pure Storage terminated 275 roles across its company, amounting to 4% of its workforce (SiliconAngle)

• Healthcare startup creator Redesign Health cut its workforce by 77 positions (Fierce Healthcare)

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OPEN ROLES VIA TALENTCONNECT

Jobs You Might Want (For Yourself!)

• Social services agency Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services is hiring a Deputy Chief People Officer, based in New York, NY

• Agricultural company Perdue AgriBusiness is hiring a Recruiter, based in Salisbury, MD

• Medical institution Johns Hopkins Hospital is hiring a Senior Human Resources Business Partner, based in Baltimore, MD

• Bottling partner Swire Coca-Cola is hiring a Talent Acquisition Manager, based in Boise, ID

• Medical aesthetics clinic LaserAway is hiring a Senior Human Resource Business Partner, based in Mountain View, CA

• Executive search firm Greven Executive Search is hiring a Director of Talent Acquisition and Development, based in Saginaw, MI

  
  For a full list of open talent acquisition roles, check out TalentConnect, a job board for TA-lent, powered by RecruitmentMarketing.com

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Before You Go … Other Things To Know

• Programmatic job advertising platform Joveo added industry vets Cindy Songné and Yazad Dalal to its leadership team, leading agency partnerships and new business ventures, respectively (Globe Newswire)

• New York-based consulting firm Tandym Group acquired Kolter Solutions, a recruiting and staff augmentation firm (PR Newswire)

• Check out this guide from Recruitics about what to consider when you are revamping your recruitment marketing strategy (Recruitics)

• Read about what recruitment marketers can learn from Super Bowl advertising strategies to enhance employer branding and attract top talent (RecruitmentMarketing.com)

• Learn how to leverage candidate feedback to refine talent acquisition strategies with insights from Survale CEO Jason Moreau (RecruitmentMarketing.com)

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