In a shift from recent years that have seen tech jobs as one of the most prominent fields for opportunity, the past year showed the rise of human-centric roles to cater to new and urgent needs brought on by the pandemic. LinkedIn’s latest Jobs on the Rise report, a special edition of the career site’s yearly emerging jobs report, saw spikes in hiring for frontline e-commerce workers, health-care professionals, workplace diversity experts and more as the top jobs on the rise that are expected to continue well into 2021.
For its report, LinkedIn tracked the growth in listings for over 15,000 job titles to find the ones that increased the most in 2020 compared with the year prior; those titles were then grouped into 15 major career trends that emerged from a year, and corresponding job market, unlike any other.
