Positioning Your Technology Skill Set for Success

By Jessica Mitsch Homes ● 11/30/2020

Positioning Your Technology Skill Set for Success

By Jessica Mitsch Homes ● 11/30/2020

To meet today’s job market and future workplace trends, it is important to align your career planning and skill development with the large-scale shifts affecting how business gets done.

This year, businesses made pivots that are contributing to short-term and long-term changes in the workplace. Businesses are focusing on adjusting tech operations and strategies to position their organizations for the future and jobs in technology play a significant role in those efforts. 

Lately it seems like every company is a tech company, which is a testament to the increased importance that technology operations have taken on in 2020. Even businesses that weren’t reliant on technology in the past have had to invest in ways to serve their customers or deliver their products virtually. And the demand for skilled technology professionals to fill those jobs is only expected to grow.

Businesses are focusing on adjusting tech operations and strategies to position their organizations for the future

When it comes to cultivating skills for 2021 and beyond, experts say employers will focus less on clearly-defined, traditional roles and more on employee’s skills. This will lead to an increase in hybridized roles that make use of an employee’s specific skills to enable organizations to drive their competitive advantage. Now could be a great opportunity to expand your tech toolkit with relevant, in-demand skills. Rather than plan for your next role, consider developing critical skills in tech that potentially open up multiple opportunities for jobs in technology.

According to the NC TECH IT Job Trends Report this November, there are hard skills with high growing demand in North Carolina specifically. If you’re considering which critical skills to develop in the coming months, it can be beneficial to explore top skills with high growth compared to November 2019.

Here are five hard skills with large year-over-year increase in North Carolina (November 2020):

  • Software Engineering (+58.2%)
  • AWS (+43.7%)
  • C/C++ (+34%)
  • Python (+26.8%)
  • Software Development (+15.3%)

Recent jobs report data offers a promising outlook for jobs in technology across the country to lead the charge in the future of work. Jobs such as web developers and software engineers are critical to an organization’s ability to quickly pivot into remote work environment and the post-COVID environment.

As businesses plan for a post-pandemic workforce, consider ways you can independently develop critical skills in technology or review the upskilling opportunities your employer offers. Businesses are evolving and you too can grow your skillset to stay ahead of future workplace trends and earn job security.

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