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The top 10 skills that got people hired in 2014

Jillian D'Onfro
Writer, Business Insider

With more than 330 million people using the service to list their resumes, find jobs, or find new hires, LinkedIn has a lot of data about the current job market.

To close out 2014, the company released a list of the top skills people who got hired this year had listed on their profiles and that recruiters searched for the most.

These are the ten skills that got people jobs this year:

  1. Statistics Analysis and Data Mining
  2. Middleware and Integration Software
  3. Storage Systams and Management
  4. Network and Information Security
  5. SEO/SEM Marketing
  6. Business Intelligence
  7. Mobile Development
  8. Web Architecture and Development Framework
  9. Algorithm Design
  10. Perl/Python/Ruby

This article is published in collaboration with Business Insider. Publication does not imply endorsement of views by the World Economic Forum.

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Author: Jillian D’Onfro writes for Business Insider’s Technology vertical and focuses on covering Google and e-commerce.

Image: A man looks at a job board posted at a job fair in Toronto, April 1, 2009. REUTERS/Mark Blinch.

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