The Definitive Guide to Job Searching in the Great Reshuffle

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The year 2022 has been the ideal year to make a professional change.

We can see how the pandemic made a great impact on the career of many. The term “Great Reshuffle” refers to the significant wave of a career shift where people are putting a high value on flexibility and achievement.

With the Definitive Guide to Job Searching During the Great Reshuffle, we have you covered whether you want to advance, change, or entirely alter your role.

Learn the right skills to land your next opportunity

Let’s start with the trending skills among successful job changes. These are the skills job seekers learned in the months leading up to successfully landing their next opportunity.

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1. Interview Preparation 

2. Job Search Strategies 

3. Product Management

4. Enterprise Marketing

5. SQL 

6. Scrum

7. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 

8. Agile Methodologies 

9. R (Programming language)

10. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What other takeaways can we gather from this list? According to LinkedIn Learning data, there are two key things professionals who “reshuffled” themselves into new jobs focused on.

One: they brushed up on their interview skills. It makes sense. Most of us have to “relearn” how to interview every time we do it, especially if it’s been awhile. Pro tip: take interviews throughout the year to stay sharp. In 2021, learners who landed new jobs watched LinkedIn Learning courses that taught Interview Preparation skills 2.4x more than others.

The second thing successful learners did in 2021: they learned or reviewed hard skills. To get a new job, you also need to demonstrate specific skills that are key for the role. It can be tough to explain the magic behind what you do in a way that your interviewer will understand. To help nail this, 2021’s new hires disproportionately watched courses that helped them brush up on hard skills like software development, project management, data analysis, and more.

Framed this way, it’s easy to see why these skills and courses were so frequently visited by professionals who found exciting new roles outside of their organization. Investing your time in the following 10 skills and courses will pay dividends by giving you all the tools you need to secure that new gig, just like the pros who took these courses before you did.

What if you don’t want to leave your company, but you do want to change your job?

You don’t necessarily have to leave behind your great reputation, company culture, or vesting stock options to reinvigorate your career or transform your role into what you’ve always wanted it to be. Plenty of professionals like you are finding ways to do that while remaining with their current employer!

Internal mobility via promotion or transition is a great way to keep your career momentum, credentials and connections, and even to leverage them into finding a better fit. What skills can help you get a new role at your current company? We looked at the data to help you find out.

Compared to their external counterparts, the learners making internal moves during the Great Reshuffle focused much more on “soft” skills or people skills than hard skills. In fact, internal hires spent 56% more time learning soft skills before getting their new job, compared to external hires. Pros that successfully transitioned to higher roles within their companies took LinkedIn Learning courses on “Allyship” 2.5x more often, and “Employee Coaching,” “People Development,” “Employee Engagement,” and “Constructive Feedback” 2.2x more often.

The success of learners studying these skills shows that organizations like yours are looking for more than an external hire that has the hard skills to do the job. They’re looking for professionals with a proven internal track record of leadership and people skills to help their business grow, adapt, and lead by example. You aren’t the only one who wants to use the Great Reshuffle as a catalyst for change; your employer does, too. With skills like these, you can show them you can do it together.

Here are the top 10 most popular skills learned prior to an internal hire:

  1. Allyship: Leading Your Org on A Journey of Allyship
  2. Employee Coaching: Coaching Virtually
  3. People Development: Having Career Conversations with Your Team
  4. Employee Engagement: Employee Engagement
  5. Constructive Feedback: Giving and Receiving Feedback
  6. Executive Leadership: Executive Leadership
  7. Talent Management: Talent Management
  8. Team Management: Managing Teams
  9. Diversity & Inclusion: Be an Inclusive Organization People Won’t Leave
  10. Leading Meetings: Leading Virtual Meetings

*LinkedIn Learning members who made an internal job change were more likely to have taken courses on these skills compared to learners who didn’t successfully make an internal move.

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