2016: The Year of the 'Hybrid Job'
New Analysis on Skills Needed Shows 71% of In-Demand Skills Are Required Across 2+ Job Categories
New Analysis on Skills Needed Shows 71% of In-Demand Skills Are Required Across 2+ Job Categories
WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In today's job market, the IT professional must also be a sales representative and the HR manager is now expected to deftly navigate the world of social media. New market analysis commissioned by Bentley University and powered by the labor market analytics firm Burning Glass, has found job descriptions are expanding to include skills that used to represent standalone jobs, threatening to altogether eliminate positions such as the social media strategist or web designer.
Bentley and Burning Glass analyzed key jobs and skills across nine job categories representing different business, IT, and analytics functions – such as marketing, HR, and data analysis. The analysis, which examined data from 24.5 million U.S. company job listings from September 2014 to August 2015, found that 71% of in-demand skills are required across 2+ job categories. Candidates that possess those cross-category skills will be best-prepared for the Hybrid Job of tomorrow.
Topping the list of key skills for the Hybrid Job: data analysis, social media, and business development.
To view Bentley's Hybrid Job Skills infographic, click here.
"Based on the data we analyzed, 2016 looks to be the year of the hybrid job – and the hybrid employee," said Bentley University President Gloria Larson. "The successful employee of tomorrow will need to combine traditional soft skills such as communication and collaboration with the hard, technical skills that used to belong to a select tech-savvy group. This evolution reflects a growing movement in higher education, where more and more schools are finding creative ways to truly integrate liberal arts strengths with professional and technical skills. It is the way we need to teach and work – by helping to develop the ability to view opportunities, challenges, and problems through multiple perspectives, whether it is a student or an employee. It is exactly the type of change and innovation necessary to drive our economy."
The market data proved that some previously popular jobs are in decline as their once-innovative skills have become mainstream and integrated into other roles. For example, postings for social media strategists have fallen 64 percent in the last five years, even as the skill of social media strategy has risen sharply in human resource jobs (up 376 percent), sales jobs (up 150 percent), and marketing and PR jobs (up 117 percent).
Job postings for web designers have fallen 8 percent, even as the skill of web design has risen 11 percent in marketing/PR job listings and 9 percent in graphic design job listings. When it comes to sales, postings for business development executive have fallen 49 percent, but the need for that skill has grown 68 percent in marketing/PR job listings and 29 percent for IT job listings.
"The report findings reflect the need for employees to be versatile and dynamic, just like the workplaces where they will be expected to contribute and transform," said Katie Burke, VP of Culture and Experience at HubSpot.
The Bentley University/Burning Glass analysis also found:
The Market Analysis
The Bentley University/Burning Glass analysis was conducted by Burning Glass researchers who drew from the company's detailed database of online employer demand, which includes over 100 million current and historical job postings collected from close to 40,000 online job sites. Using an artificial intelligence engine, Burning Glass extracted information from each unique posting relating to job titles, skill requirements, requested credentials, salary, and the length of time postings remained open. The data was aggregated and analyzed to identify in-demand jobs and skills across key business, IT, and analytics jobs.
About Bentley University
Bentley University is one of the nation's leading business schools, dedicated to preparing a new kind of business leader – one with the deep technical skills, broad global perspective and high ethical standards required to make a difference in an ever-changing world. Our rich, diverse arts and sciences program, combined with an advanced business curriculum, prepares informed professionals who make an impact in their chosen fields. Located on a classic New England campus minutes from Boston, Bentley enrolls approximately 4,100 full-time undergraduate, 140 adult part-time undergraduate, 1,430 graduate and 43 doctoral students.
Bentley's PreparedU Project was launched to spur a national dialogue among the business community, parents, higher education, the media and millennials about college graduates' preparedness for the workforce. For the latest information about the project, visit Bentley.edu/prepared/2016-jobs-skills or follow us on Twitter at @BentleyU.
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