Top Computer Skills You Must Need For Your Career Success
It was previously thought that computer skills were necessary by software engineers only, some type of designing or in telecommunications, computer literacy means you are familiar with the basics of MS Office: Word, Excel and also PowerPoint. To know more about the top computer skills, you need to know, keep reading this blog. Nowadays nobody asks about computer skills and it is supposed that you must know them as you leave your school. Rather every profession now has specific software tools and platforms needed for that job. Whether you are continuing with the same industry or switching your job, you need to upgrade yourself with some software skills. Here we listed some of the necessary software skills in demand by industry in 2018, according to job listings on Indeed.com in the US.
Accounting: Accounting software & online bookkeeping: Quickbooks/Quickbooks Online, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Office: Excel Business / Finance Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): MS Dynamics, SAP, NetSuite
Databases: Oracle, SQL MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint
Business Intelligence and Data Analysis: Data science: Matlab, Stata Programming languages: VB.NET, Perl, Scala Data visualization tools: D3.js (Javascript), Tableau MS Office: Excel, Visio
Graphic Designing Designing software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand and more, CorelDRAW, GIMP Page layout software: QuarkXpress, Adobe InDesign User experience (UX) software: Balsamiq, OmniGraffle.
Human Resources This needs everything like tracking applicants, to manage the payroll, employee databases, evaluations and many more. Law CRM software: InTouch, Lexicata Research services: Westlaw, LexisNexis Case and practice management software: Clio Microsoft Office: Excel.
Marketing Marketing automation (MA) software: Marketo, Pardot, Eloqua, InfusionSoft, Silverpop (now part of IBM Watson Marketing)
CRM software: Salesforce, Hubspot Accountbased marketing (ABM): Demandbase PM software: Basecamp, Wrike, QuickBase Advertising tools: Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Advertising, Twitter Ads Analytics: Google Analytics Data visualization tools: D3.js (Javascript), Tableau Content management systems (CMS): WordPress Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint.
Real Estate : Property management and asset optimization: Yardi, YieldStar Microsoft Office: Excel, Word Sales Customer relationship management (CRM) software: Salesforce, Zoho CRM Databases: Oracle, SQL Microsoft Office: Excel.
Software Development: Best Programming languages: JavaScript, SQL, C#, Java, PHP, Python, VB.NET, HTML/CSS, TypeScript, Ruby, C++, C Revision control: Git, Perforce, Subversion (SVN), Mercurial Databases: Oracle and PL/SQL (or just ‘PLSQL’), MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), IBM DB2 Frameworks: Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS The list was created by looking after suggestions from people on the forums in Reddit, skills surveys, business software directories like Capterra and SelectHub of course, from job listings on Indeed.com.
The list is about the most indemand software skills and some of which you could upgrade yourself, which you might need. Several jobs need only a few of the mentioned skills for the industry, and there are many software tools and packages which were not listed which is not much in demand. The list might not be perfect. Whatever you learn about Microsoft Office, it’s because basic or advanced level knowledge is needed. With this, we conclude our discussion on career guidance about the top computer skills you need to upgrade for your career success. And keep looking into this space by career advice for more career guidance tips, news, and updates.