When it comes a particular set of skills for the work industry, things can be pretty competitive. Many are searching for the right skill set in order for them to be accepted in a company or be useful to the entire human generation. A bubble tea expert is perhaps not the skill we’re talking about although it may be good for if you’re looking for a sugar rush adventure.
The world’s largest professional network, LinkedIn has been helping employees securing the right fit of a job for many years now. Recently, they launched the Future of Skills 2019 Report, which identifies the top 10 rising skills of LinkedIn members in the region over the last 5 years. To identify the skills by what is in demand now by companies, LinkedIn members listed the highest month-on-month growth. As part of the report, LinkedIn also conducted a deep dive into employees readiness to tackle the future workforce and how learning and development professionals are responding to the skills transformation.
As traditional industries adopt new technology and ride the wave of digital transformation to improve operations and introduce new products and services, it is unsurprising that the top rising skills in APAC are dominated by technology-related skills.
These rising skills can be used as a signpost for organisations to determine how the industry is innovating and transforming, and help their employees cope with the pace of change through upskilling.
Here are the Top 10 Rising Skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In the early AI research in the 1950s, it explored topics like problem-solving and symbolic method. Present day, it’s usage surpasses more than just a machine. AI adapts through progressive learning algorithms, analyzes more and deeper data as well as it acheives incredible accuracy through deep neural networks.
Jobs associated with AI: Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer
Workflow Automation

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This refers to the design, execution, and automation of processes based on workflow rules where human tasks, data or files are routed between people or systems based on predefined business rules. The reason why this job is such in demand is it’s able to avoid repetitive tasks, and when your works flow, you can concentrate on getting more done and focusing on the things that matter.
Jobs associated: Marketing Automation and Email Specialist, Project Manager, Consultant
Compliance

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Compliance is similarly a job that leads your team to obey the law and order of a certain company. Making sure that a company is conducting its business in full compliance with all national and international laws and regulations that pertain to its particular industry. This includes professional standards, accepted business practices, and internal standards. This job is highly sought after in healthcare, and banking places.
Jobs associated: Compliance Review, Compliance Manager, Compliance Coordinator
Social Media Marketing

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As social media users arise, so is the demand. Social platforms are the biggest information giver in this current generation. It helps you connect with your customers, increase awareness about your brand, and boost your leads and sales. Besides that, it increases traffic and enhanced SEO rankings as well.
Jobs Associated: Social Media Specialist, Marketing Manager, Digital Marketing Specialist
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

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It’s a job that is an emerging form of business process automation technology based on the notion of metaphorical software robots or goes back to the artificial intelligence workers. With RPA, cost efficiency and compliance are no longer an operating cost but a byproduct of the automation. Ensuring fast benefit realization, minimal upfront investment and no disruption to underlying systems.
Jobs Associated: Analyst Jobs, RPA Developer, Process Designer
Front-end Web Development

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Also known as client-side development, it’s a job of producing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a website or Web Application so that a user can see and interact with them directly. This job scope is important for business because the first impression to a website counts and it can also serve as a platform for businesses to state their purposes and in turn, providing a successful branding.
Jobs Associated: Web Designer, Database Administrator, Systems Engineering
Blockchain

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Blockchain is a special database which gained popularity because of cryptocurrencies adopting it, especially bitcoin. Blockchain developers have a strong mix of skills in the areas of computer networking, cryptography and algorithms and data structures. It’s essential now because it’ll allow us to own digital goods, assets and data.
Jobs Associated: Blockchain Developer, Blockchain Engineers, Blockchain legal consultant
Gesture Recognition Technology
A topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. Nowadays, this skill set is so high in demand for healthcare organizations to mitigate security risks and improve clinician efficiency. Microsoft even has a project to explore camera-based gesture recognition within surgical settings.
Jobs Associated: Robotics, anything that relates to gesture recognition
Continuous Integration

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This is the practice of merging all developers working copies to shared mainline several times a day. The goal is to provide feedback so that if a defect is introduced into the code base, it can be identified and corrected as soon as possible. It also can be used to automate the testing and build a document trail.
Jobs Associated: Software Engineer, Automation, Coding
Human Centred Design

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The job requires you to design and handle management framework that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process. It involves an approach to solving complex problems and address the core needs of those who experience a problem.
Jobs Associated: User Experience Designer, Graphics Designer, Product Designer
The report also studied the top three rising skill categories in each country that are more prevalent compared to the APAC average. These are the skills that have higher
prominence in Malaysia compared to the region namely; social media marketing, human-centred design, workflow automation.
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