These are the skills that'll get you hired

Make your CV attractive with these must-have skills!

Professional network LinkedIn has recently released their global lists of Top Skills of 2016. The list aims to provide job seekers with the right knowledge of skills they'll need to become desirable in the current job market.
The list comprises majorly of computer, and IT related skills which can be read below. Studying or taking up these skills will prove to be a great boon for every person's job hunt.
10. Storage Systems and Management
Coming in at number 10 is data storage. The skill entails the role of maximising and improving on data storage resources.
9. SEO/SEM Marketing
Search Engine Optimization is a must in this day and age. SEO is the skill of strategically putting keywords for search engines to track and usually results in what users see in every search they do.
8. Data Presentation
The essentials of data presentation include summarizing, organizing and communicating information using tools such as diagrams, charts, graphs and the like.\
7. Mobile Development
With mobile becoming a giant in today's society, pushing the technology's potential is a no-brainer skill that any applicant should have one way or the other.
6. Network and Information Security
Be the watcher of the web and prevent unauthorized access and malicious attacks from ever taking place. With the focus on the Internet and more people having access to it, knowing how to be secure is a must.
5. User Interface Design
People LOVE good looking anything - websites, product packaging, apps. The looks is the make or break and people who have a good eye on what they think end-users would like is needed now more than ever.
4. Middleware and Integration Software
Middleware makes things such as application development simpler. This is done by offering common programming abstractions. If you do have this skill up your sleeve, you're in for luck.
 
And here's the Top 3 skills employers WANT:
 
3. Web Architecture and Development Framework
The Internet would be a cold and lonely place if there wasn't any websites. Thus, the world and the current industry needs more people to develop not just websites, but BEAUTIFUL websites.
2. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
Statistical analysis is the skill of determining trends while data mining is the fine art of extracting hidden patterns in databases. The two come hand in hand in a sense that they both tackle analysis of information.
1. Cloud and Distributed Computing
Rounding up the list is the might power of the Cloud. It is quite a young and interesting piece of technology and the world has yet to realize its true potential. Tie this up with working ideas on how networks of computers work and you'll have the master key to securing any job there is on the planet.
- keith@khaleejtimes.com