If you are skilled in Artificial Intelligence or Blockchain Development, you could have a great year in 2018. Tech skills continue to be in demand in 2018, but you need to upgrade yourself with relevant soft skills.
This is has been highlighted by LinkedIn’s blog on the most promising jobs of 2018. Not only are the most demanding skills changing, but how people define success and career goals is changing too. While the LinkedIn blog was more akin to the job market in America, the picture is not very different in India when it comes to demands for tech skills in 2018.
While techies continue to be in demand, interdisciplinary roles with different skill sets is also important. Most importantly, companies are looking for soft skills like communication, leadership and strategy. Customer acquisition and sustenance roles, marketing, and sales-related jobs are growing quickly.
In 2018, those with technical background will need added soft skills to ace the competitive job market. According to Forbes, the number of tech employment opportunities is expected to increase by 12% by 2024, which will lead to more and more jobs becoming available to IT professionals.
Here are some skills that will face the highest demand in 2018
Data scientist
According to a CIO study, data scientists will face increasing demand in 2018. He is the person who helps gather, process and analyse data. They should also be skilled in communicating those findings and offering recommendations to others in the business. They should be very skilled in programming languages, especially Python and Java.
Network administrators
They are responsible for handling LAN/WAN protocol, software and hardware. They spend a lot of time troubleshooting and typically need to be on call in case of an emergency or failure.
Data security administrators
They are responsible for defining network security requirements, ensuring all security measures are up to date, monitoring company-wide security practices and implementing security strategies.
Artificial Intelligence
As per Forbes list, this field is going to be seriously understaffed as more and more business and industry vertical adapt to AI. Specifically, finding technology leaders (CIO/CTO, head of product, etc.) who know how to credibly manage teams made up of AI, data science and innovative product specialists will prove to be difficult going forward.
Machine Learning
It focuses on the development of algorithms that can teach themselves to grow and change when exposed to new data.You should have a deep understanding of a broad set of algorithms and applied math, problem solving and analytical skills, probability and statistics and programming languages such as Python/C++/R/Java; and above all an innate curiosity.
Block Chain Development
Insights from Blockchain Developers show that the field has gained increasing importance because of its relevance in facilitating a single shared version of the truth for any digital asset. Many business verticals are moving towards this niche technology, and Blockchain developers are going to be in high demand in the coming year.
These tech skills will need to be paired with immense soft skills for techies to succeed in 2018.
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