article source: CNBC
overview: CNBC Make It spoke with business executives and education experts to learn what skills workers should pick up right now.
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Data science
The most common skill that the experts mentioned was being comfortable analyzing, interpreting and harnessing data.
Jake Schwartz, CEO of General Assembly, an education company that offers classes in coding, design, data science and business, says the number one skill workers should work on is “data, data, data.”
“Coming out of this [pandemic] there’s no doubt that the world is going to become more data-driven,” he says, noting that a wide range of businesses have been forced to reimagine how they sell products and services to limit physical contact — and are now using data to make even more business decisions than before.