LinkedIn shares valuable insights on what they believe remains and grows more essential—skill learning—during these trying times. See the numbers on how professionals around the world are consuming educational resources.
LinkedIn is the world’s number one digital landscape for professionals. As such, their data on how companies and careers behave amidst the pandemic may prove valuable to you on how to move here on. LinkedIn provides input on how professionals are currently gobbling up the time to stay productive—by learning.
By April, LinkedIn saw an increase of three times the hours spent learning compared to February, twice compared to March. April shows an accumulate 7.7 million hours of consumed LinkedIn learning content. It’s evident that professionals are now opting to adapt from home.
This rings especially true as the learning content consumed by professionals are gearing towards remote learning and working. For many, the idea of working from home is uncharted thought. LinkedIn shows that professionals are making efforts in developing skills on Zoom, Virtual Work, Telecommuting, and Virtual Teams Collaboration Solutions. It’s not just you.
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That said, social learning is also on the rise. People are learning together. LinkedIn saw a 301% increase in professionals joining Learning Groups, 153% increase in courses shared and 111% increase in contributions to Learning Q&As. Sharing resources remains essential and doable even without physical contact.
Furthermore, the current most popular courses lean towards staying productive at home. Consequently, time management, remote work foundations, and productivity habits are the courses that have seen massive growth. They also saw that the audiences who lead in this strategy to adjust are the Managers, Job Seekers, C-level, and New Hires.
Most importantly, LinkedIn notes that these are all in-house LinkedIn data. Also available and accessible to you through over 275 free LinkedIn Learning courses with diverse topics. It’s all about tiding through and deciding how to go about this long (historical) period. LinkedIn offers a variety of courses you might see useful. Here’s one for job seekers, a series on stay at home productivity, and resources for small-to-medium businesses which relates to the economy.
There have been a lot of changes, while most we regard as temporary, some of which are here to stay. Take note, on a global survey of senior leaders, 45% are considering a more permanent shift to virtual events and 44% are evaluating more permanent remote work policies. Your skills and adaptability may be the only constant during these dramatic shifts. Stay afloat for the future by continuing to learn.
