12 Trending Skills With High Demand In 2021

It can be fair to say some skills have kept us longing we have them or may be we have gone ahead to acquire them in recent times.

These are the realities of our time and it's all part of the digital evolution. So what are these skills?

Let's get straight to them!

Copywriting is the occupation or act of writing the text for advertising or other forms of marketing. The product, called copy or sales copy, is written content that aims to increase brand awareness and ultimately persuade a group or person to take a particular action.

Copywriters spend their time writing prose for the main purpose of advertising to promote and sell services and products. In advertising agencies, a copywriter is commonly known as a “creative” because they make up the slogans or "copies" that drive ad (advertisement) campaigns.

Public Speaking — Your first taught maybe, well everyone speaks publicly. Think again! Public speaking is the act of speaking face to face to a live audience. However, due to the evolution of public- speaking, it can no longer be perceived as a form of communication between a speaker and their audience speaker.

Evolutionally, public speaking is now considered as an art/act for “persuasion”. Note the keyword - persuasion. Two adversarial lawyers arguing points of law before a jury is an example of public speaking at its best. People are asked to determine guilt or innocence based on the effectiveness of the speakers and their arguments. They make important decisions every day based on a speaker’s skill in communicating. Ultimately public speakers tend to easily become "Influencers".

Microsoft Excel Knowledge — So the beauty with this is any Joe out there could claim this as their software forte. After all, who does not use MS Office but when push comes to shove and they are tested, the rest is history. One could easily be placed on a skill set level scaling from a Beginner, Intermediate up to an Advanced Level.

Now most modern-day business-oriented requires one to have an advanced knowledge which would consist but not exhaustive of Pivot Tables, Flash fill, Filters, Conditional Formatting, COUNTIF, Charts, SUMIF, IFERRORS, Slicers, Power Pivots, Sparkline and the list continues… Once you get this, then you get closer to becoming comfortable on statistics and data analytics.

Web Development — Web development is the work involved in developing a Web site for the Internet or an intranet. Web development can range from developing a simple single static page of plain text to complex web applications, electronic businesses, and social network services.

Personally, it’s the reason I can write this article in the first place. This one skill may stretch till the end of time…well so I’m thinking! Who does not have a website or a blog these days?

Project Management — Now, this field cuts across as interdisciplinary. This can be applied in a STEM environment where it targets Software management (Agile) and in Social and Human Management.

Take, for instance, the compares’ of an MBA Project Manager versus an Agile Project Manager. Well, their value is defined in their practice. The MBA candidate deals more on Administrative Projects while the Agile (JIRA) Manager deals more on Software oriented Projects with both having a common ground which is PROJECTS!

Facebook ADS — Online Advertisement on Facebook. A social network advertising or social media targeting. These are terms used daily for online advertising that focus on social networking services and their subscribers/followers/accounts.

Unarguably, one of the best mediums for advertisement in the modern era simply due to high TRAFFIC. This form of advertising comes with front-end technical/statistics skills while the back end (Facebook team) creates an output that goes viral.

Coding — The art of communicating with computers! Coding means using one or several programming languages to get the computer to behave as desired. Each line of codes is a set of instructions for the computer to react to.

A set of codes form a script, and a set or dozens of sets, form a program. Coding languages include but are not limited to JavaScript, C#, Python, Jira, Elm, Rust, Ruby, Go, and many others with functions varying in different fields.

SEO/Google Analytics — So you’ve created a website, a blog, a channel, a social media account but you can’t explain why they are not growing. Here comes the use of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and or Google Analytics diagnosing were you are lacking in growth .It allows you to compare what other online systems are doing right versus what you are not doing.

Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your video, Flash, applications and social networking sites. So next time you are not sure on how to grow your site Traffic, think how much analytics you know.

App Development — Personally, this keeps getting interesting everyday as there is always one app for something. So have ever taught about making your own app for your daily use? Well, then commercialize along the way!

App (Application) development is the act or process by which an software application is developed for mobile/on table devices, such as personal digital gadgets/assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. They are mostly designed to be multifaceted adapting to different systems to serve different business niche and customers alike.

UX Design — User experience (UX) design is the process designers use to create products that provide relevant and meaningful experiences to users. This involves the design of the complete process of acquiring and integrating the product, including aspects of design, usability, branding and function.

UX designers turn applications into end products that people like and want to identify with. UX designers optimize and measure applications (usually web based) to improve usability and create the best/sustainable/durable user experience by exploring many approaches to solve end-users’ challenges.

Social Media Marketing — As mentioned earlier, is a skill were one uses social media networks such as Facebook, Instagram , Pinterest, WhatsApp, YouTube, TikTok (list not exhaustive) to advertise through activities like posting images, pictures, texts, comments, videos, reels, stories and so on to gain social engagements which in turn increases the buying power of customers either directly or indirectly.

Here people such as social influencers and growth managers also grow their fan base for future immediate or future engagements (market).

Photoshop — This one tool brings out the artistic skills in the user to edit/enhance a picture(s) for business purposes (in this case).Photoshop is Adobe’s photo editing, graphic design and image creation software. This software provides many image editing features for vector graphics as well as raster (pixel-based) images. An option known as Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) allows users to work on content from any laptop/computer. Proficiency could also mean the capacity to use other image/picture software editors such as Canva.

These are in no way undermining other recently recognized skills, however, the emphasis is on the fact they are trending. I am sure we would definitely like to remain valuable with each or all of these twelve (12) trending skills in high demand.

Thank you for reading!!!

By Foramonami

I am a serial blogger and also a digital nomad. I am enthusiastic about adding value in people lives.