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<p>These are the 10 most in-demand skills of 2019, according to LinkedIn

Are you looking for a fresh start in 2019? Maybe you’d like to get fit? Learn a new skill? Or change career?

According to analysis from networking site LinkedIn, 2019’s employers are looking for a combination of both hard and soft skills, with creativity topping the list of desired attributes. The findings chime with the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report, which concluded that “human” skills like originality, initiative and critical thinking are likely to increase in value as technology and automation advances.

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World Economic Forum
These are the 10 most in-demand skills of 2019, according to LinkedIn
01/14/2019
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/the-hard-and-soft-skills-to-futu…

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