While employment law and compliance remains the fastest-growing skillset in the HR profession, artificial intelligence literacy followed directly after in the second spot, according to LinkedIn’s Skills on the Rise report, released Feb. 24.
LinkedIn measured year-over-year growth of skills through skill acquisition — the growth of a skill being added to LinkedIn profiles — and hiring success, described as growth of a skill possessed by LinkedIn members who have been hired in the past year.
In other words, AI literacy was both sought by HR professionals in a training capacity and was a key skill possessed by those that were hired this year.
Other skills that made the HR-specific list include client prospecting — reflecting a growth of self-employed, consultant HR professionals — operational efficiency, data analytics and organizational change management.
Much of the HR profession remains human-oriented, the list showed. “Implementing AI, restructuring teams, shifting how work gets done — none of it works without bringing people along,” Teuila Hanson, chief people officer at LinkedIn, wrote in a post about the list. “Change management is what separates transformation that sticks from initiatives that lose steam six months later.”
Adaption to ongoing market shifts is key for HR professionals, according to a recent Isolved report — but just under half of HR leaders surveyed said that they are facing a self-inflicted talent crisis due to a lack of necessary agility.
On the broader “skills on the rise” list, AI engineering and implementation took the No. 1 spot. AI business strategy took the third spot. Despite the rising need for AI-related skills, however, soft skills also remain in high demand, other reports have shown; 60% of employers surveyed by TestGorilla last year said soft skills were more important today than five years ago.
Notably, executive and shareholder communications was fourty on LinkedIn’s Skills on the Rise list, while leadership and people management skills was sixth.
