By Khalifa Hemed
Published March 22, 2019
Do you have the skills required to not just remain relevant and functional but excellent in the work place?
According to a newly-published global report, two-thirds of the world’s population is falling behind in critical skills, including 90% of developing economies.
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The Global Skills Index (GSI) by Coursera, a United States of America-based organisation that says it ‘provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online,’ shows that Africa, like Latin America, Middle east and Asia-Pacific,
has ‘high skill inequality’.
According to Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data Science with Coursera, the GSI shows that:
- Demand for Technology and Data Science skills is growing, while demand for Business skills is shrinking
- Technology industry professionals lack strong business skills
- Manufacturing shows skills resilience in the digital era
- Telecommunications is the only industry to rank consistently in the top three across Business, Technology, and Data Science
- Finance surprises with below-average skills performance.
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GSI shows the following as some of the skills, that Coursera is currently offering in partnership with various institutions of higher learning, you need to
succeed:
- Python Programming
Retrieving and processing data, scrape web data, retrieve data from APIs, data visualization - Big Data
Spark, Hadoop with MapReduce, Processing Using Splunk - Leadership
Project efficacy and productivity, negotiation, communicating with executives, time management - Microsoft Excel
Data management, financial functions, spreadsheet design, data cleaning and modeling - Analytics
Business Intelligence consulting, data-driven decision making, data visualization and presentation
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- Writing
Essay writing, academic writing, punctuation, grammar, verb tenses - Decision-making
Leading in a virtual world, decision analysis, corporate governance - Marketing Strategy
Cross-channel customer acquisition, online behavior analysis, email marketing, display advertising - Financial Statements
Marketing strategy, people management, corporate finance, operations analysis - Deep Learning
Neural network optimization, Tensorflow, error analysis, sequence models, Hyperparameter tuning.
