LinkedIn Reveals Fastest-Growing Jobs in Retail
As the largest professional network on the internet, LinkedIn serves more than 546 million members, 20-plus million companies and provides access to 14-plus million active job listings, bringing to life real-time talent insights, across industries. In this report, the company uncovers insights on retail jobs today and found that as retail goes digital, engineering jobs and skills are on the rise. Software developers, for example, are now the third-most common job in retail, rising from the eighth-most common in 2013. So for retail companies, the question becomes: How do you shift your recruiting and hiring strategies to compete for a new kind of talent? Here are the insights found in LinkedIn’s latest report on retail trends and what it means for employers and employees in retail and outside the industry.