Skills in demand
Fast-growing professions
100 Fastest Growing Global Skills in 2024
Udemy has identified 100 Fastest – Growing Global Skills for 2024. They are a tech teaching company so they focus on tech skills. Some of the skills identified by Udemy are application specific, like 1. ChatGPT and 3. Google Cloud skills. When a new, better product comes along, experts in those companies will be able to quickly learn the new product and move forward in their careers. Others are more long term, like 9. DevSecOps which is about IT security, and that has been an issue since the internet started connecting data.
Here are the Top 10
Skill in Demand | Discussion |
| If you haven’t played with ChatGPT, get yourself a free account and start playing around with it. It is an artificial intelligence platform that is the biggest change in IT since the internet reached us. |
2. Environmental, Social and Governance skills.
| This is about frameworks. A law degree, policy development experience or knowledge of enterprise architecture would help in creating and enforcing frameworks that give us order and safety. |
3. Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
| Many companies use Google Cloud Computing to scale their operations and take advantage of global resources. If you know how to use these Google systems, you will be seen as a serious techie. |
4. Behavioral economics
| These people put together economics and psychology to anticipate how people will behave. |
5. Advertising strategy
| This isn’t new but keeping up with emerging advertising strategies will be challenging. Donald Trump is an expert at this. |
6. Certification and software test-taking preparation
| This sounds like teaching and ensuring the credibility of the test taking systems. |
7. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics
| This is about managing big data. The World Economic Forum has been identifying this data analytic skills as a priority for some time. Being able to crunch data continues to be an in demand skills and the Microsoft system is leading. |
8. Autodesk 3ds Max
| In 2023 the Managing Director of North Metro TAFE told career practitioners that their gaming courses were leading to jobs in design and project visualisation. This skill is about creating 3D models. |
9. DevSecOps
| This skill deals with the ongoing challenge of security across organisations and platforms. It is anticipated that skills to develop security systems will continue to be ibn high demand. |
10. Software design
| Go to TAFE. Get in on the ground floor in an entry level computer class and keep learning for the rest of your career. |
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