It has been about a month since we shared the top ten skills that employers were looking for when hiring. We've updated that list and have expanded it to include the top 50 skills and tools that employers are looking for candidates to have experience with. You'll definitely note there are a lot of programming languages and technical skills on the list. Take a look and let us know what you think.
| 1. Microsoft Office | 26. Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (Perl) |
| 2. Microsoft PowerPoint | 27. Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) |
| 3. Structured Query Language (SQL) | 28. Firewall |
| 4. Microsoft Word | 29. Personal Protective Equipment |
| 5. Oracle Java | 30. Network Routers |
| 6. Linux | 31. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) |
| 7. UNIX | 32. Local Area Network (LAN) |
| 8. Microsoft Excel | 33. VMWare Software |
| 9. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) | 34. Python Extensible Programming Language |
| 10. Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) | 35. Salesforce CRM |
| 11. Word Processing | 36. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) |
| 12. JavaScript (JS) | 37. Windows Servers |
| 13. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) | 38. Android |
| 14. Extensible Markup Language (XML) | 39. Microsoft Access |
| 15. Microsoft SharePoint | 40. Facilities Management |
| 16. Cash Registers | 41. Wide Area Network (WAN) |
| 17. Microsoft Office Visio | 42. MySQL |
| 18. Microsoft .NET Framework (.NET) | 43. Autodesk AutoCAD |
| 19. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | 44. Agile Software Development |
| 20. Management Information Systems (MIS) | 45. Microsoft Outlook |
| 21. Pallet Jacks | 46. Statistical Analysis |
| 22. Microsoft Project | 47. Oracle Procedural Language (PL SQL) |
| 23. Adobe Photoshop | 48. jQuery |
| 24. Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) | 49. Storage Area Network (SAN) |
| 25. Sun Microsystems Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) | 50. Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) |
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