In addition, Microsoft Learn is offering free and in-depth technical learning content that also supports these roles and job seekers pursuing developer roles can access the GitHub Learning Lab to practice their skills.Īll you need to do to get started is visit to see current job opportunities and the different learning paths available. These paths will be available at no cost through the end of March, with updated or revised content to be added as needed, and are available in English, French, Spanish and German. Each learning path includes a sequence of video content aimed at helping individuals broadly develop the core skills needed for a given role. Today, we’re making the 10 LinkedIn Learning Paths aligned with these jobs available for everyone for free. These 10 jobs were identified as having the greatest number of job openings, have had steady growth over the past four years, pay a livable wage, and require skills that can be learned online. Using this data, we identified 10 jobs that are in-demand in today’s economy and are well positioned to continue to grow in the future. And by partnering with governments, nonprofits and organizations around the world, we help them use these insights to create economic opportunity for the global workforce. These insights help us connect LinkedIn members to open opportunities. Through LinkedIn’s Economic Graph, we are able to digitally map 690M professionals, 50M companies, 11M job listings, 36K skills, and 90k schools on LinkedIn, to identify in-demand skills, emerging jobs, and global hiring patterns. It’s ambitious, and it's just the beginning, but we’re excited to help job seekers land their next job. We’ve worked together across Microsoft to make all the resources available for free for everyone in one place. We at LinkedIn are proactively reaching out to hundreds of nonprofit and community partners and thousands of nonprofit customers to make sure that they know about these available resources.

And to help the groups hit hardest by job loss, Microsoft is backing the effort with $20 million in cash grants to help nonprofit organizations worldwide. By giving free access to the skills and training that job seekers need to get jobs, we hope to do our part and help connect job seekers around the globe to new opportunities. Our goal is to help those who have become unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis get the skills they need to land their next job. That’s why today we, as part of the Microsoft ecosystem, are excited to launch a global skills initiative aimed at bringing more digital skills to 25 million people worldwide by the end of this year. An important step in accelerating economic recovery and making sure it’s inclusive, is providing easier access to digital skills for those hardest hit by job losses. And the impact has been felt disproportionately by people with low incomes, women and underrepresented minorities.

In the U.S., the unemployment rate swung from 50-year lows to 70-year highs in just three months. We are all also facing an economy that has changed dramatically. And with the reality of systemic racism in our country front and center, we have a critical and shared responsibility to create a better, more inclusive future for the Black community. We’re enduring a global pandemic that’s taken lives and impacted the well-being, health, and jobs of so many people around the globe.

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