This data storm will accelerate the demand for compound talent and mobility in the workplace.
Zinc Finance learned that the concept of “data scientist” appeared for the first time in the workplace in 2008, led by LinkedIn, the world’s leading workplace social platform, and then the first chief data scientist in the United States. DJ Patil created and quickly became known as “the sexiest job of the 21st century” – high salary, but scarce talent. In the workplace ten years later, according to the latest big data from LinkedIn, “data science related skills” has become the most urgently needed skill in the Chinese job market in 2019.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2018 survey of corporate executives also shows that managers are looking for the most talented people with “data science-related skills” in 2022. This data skill covers both hard skills such as programming and statistics, as well as soft skills such as analytical skills and logical thinking. But in reality, it presents a comprehensive ability to capture insights from the data and guide decisions.
The “sexiest job” that was once scarce or will become a must-have skill for future careers? When all walks of life have access to the Internet and tap the value of big data to transform, and more and more convenient tools can assist in the completion of complex technical operations in the data processing process, the value brought by the data begins to have a real opportunity to penetrate the workplace. Everyone in the middle breaks the professional ceiling.
British big data shows that the number of people with data skills has increased threefold in the past five years, but at the same time the market demand has increased sevenfold, and there are still 15% of job vacancies. Newcomers who work for 1-3 years have the fastest growth in data acquisition skills, while after five years of work, they have shown a lack of growth momentum. At this moment, a comprehensive “data storm” is being set up in the Chinese workplace.
Workers with data skills have tripled in 5 years, while market demand has grown nearly 7 times
British big data shows that the proportion of people with data skills has increased nearly three times in the past five years. In 2015, only 13% of the workforce had data skills, while in 2019, 40% of the workforce had data skills. From the demand side, in the past five years, the demand for data skills in the open jobs of the job market has increased nearly 7 times!
In 2015, only 6% of jobs required data skills, and in 2019, 46% of jobs required data skills. Among the industries with the fastest growth in data skills, many are from the non-tech fields and even the traditional industries, such as real estate, finance, petroleum energy and human resources. It can be seen that the value of data has been widely infiltrated into every workplace, and the work of different industries and departments has begun to be empowered by data.
In five years, data skills range from oversupply to oversupply, with “analytical capabilities” being the most important
In the past five years, the data market has changed from oversupply to oversupply in the job market. Five years ago, the number of people with data skills exceeded the market demand by 2.2 times, and this ratio of supply and demand declined year by year. Beginning in 2018, the supply of talents has not kept up with the surge in market demand; by 2019, the number of people with data skills has only met 85% of the job market, and 15% of them have failed to recruit data-related skills. To the right talent.
In the list of all data-related skills, the one with the highest market demand is “analytical ability”. It can be seen that as technology evolves, more and more tools to help data processing are developed and used by people. What is more needed in the work is a sensitivity to data and a data-oriented way of thinking. Only in this way can the value of the data be fully exploited and applied to every job.
Working newcomers with 1-3 years of work have the fastest growth in data acquisition skills
Workers of different ages have been more sensitive to data skills over the past five years. According to LinkedIn’s big data, the demand for data skills is the fastest in the workplace for 1-3 years, and the proportion of data skills has increased by 552% in five years, becoming the most sensitive group to this “data storm”. Among the graduates, the growth rate is as high as 370%. It can be seen that in the process of talent cultivation, higher education is also consciously welcoming the advent of the “data storm” and starting to promote the relevant skills of students. In contrast, after five years of work, the growth rate of data acquisition skills of the workplace began to slow down, and the sensitivity needs to be improved.
Similarly, thoughThe mastery of data skills has increased year by year with the extension of the working years of the workplace, but the main growth period is still concentrated in the first five years of entering the workplace. After five years of work, it shows insufficient growth momentum. Take the 2019 data as an example. Only 20% of the freshmen who just started working have data skills. Nearly half of them have mastered the data skills after 5 years of work. When the working years are further increased, this proportion has not been noticeable. increase. LinkedIn suggests that both business and vocational education institutions can provide targeted work and training opportunities for the status of data skills for people of all ages.
Data skills are becoming the “general magic” of the workplace, breaking the professional ceiling
Data is destined to have a deeper interaction with the workplace. Today, not only business decision makers and corporate data teams are thinking about the value of data, but not just technology practitioners who have the ability to harness data. By cultivating and strengthening a sense of data sensitivity and data thinking, every person in the workplace can be empowered with data, improve their productivity, stimulate innovative ways of working, and even cross-border to expand the boundaries of traditional occupations. “Data storm” has already come, data skills are becoming the “general skills” in the workplace, helping the workplace to break the professional ceiling and gain more opportunities for career development.
Lin Jian, President of LinkedIn China, said: “This data storm will accelerate the demand for compound talent and mobility in the workplace. As technology and people interact more and more seamlessly, data thinking becomes One of the most important migrating capabilities. LinkedIn has a global data base of 645 million members, 30 million companies, 20 million jobs and 35,000 professional skills, and these data are global, highly segmented and dynamic. With its unique historical value, relying on the strong technical support behind it, LinkedIn provides continuous and reliable data sources and data insights for the workplace, as well as the one-stop product value of ‘data thinking’ and ‘data skills’. It realizes its own professional development.”
Data Source: Data collection from January 1, 2015 to July 31, 2019, the public information of LinkedIn’s full-platform member files, as well as open recruitment positions.