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Coursera: Top 2014 LinkedIn Skills That Tie Back to Top Coursera Courses
LinkedIn released a list of the 25 Hottest Skills That Got People Hired in 2014. They analyzed over 330 million LinkedIn profiles and discovered that if you have the listed skills, there is a good chance that you started a new job or received interest from a recruiter in the past year. Many of the skills on the top 25 list tie directly to one of our Specializations—a targeted sequence of courses that provide high demand skills through final projects created in collaboration with companies like Google and Swiftkey. Here are Specializations that map back to the top skills of 2014 according to Linkedin in the US, India, and Brazil—three countries that hold our largest learner bases. Find the top skills according to LinkedIn in your country here. US: Cloud and Distributed Computing → Cloud Computing, University of Illinois Statistical Analysis and Data Mining → Data Science, Johns Hopkins University Network and Information Security → Cybersecurity, Univer…