The 5 Skills Getting You Hired in 2026 (And the 3 That Wont)

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Wed, May 27, 2026

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The Graduate's Guide to Getting Hired in the AI Era
Sobanan Narenthiran, Jasmine Hasmatali, Sarrujan Jayakumaran, and Amira Al-Shabazz
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What you'll learn

The 5 skills employers are actively screening for now

What's shifted in the last 18 months, why these skills are rising, and what each one looks like in a real application.

The 3 skills that used to matter, and quietly stopped

The things graduate advice still tells you to build, and why employers aren't weighting them like they did three years a

How to start building the right five, starting this week

Practical, low-cost moves to build evidence of the skills that actually count, before your next application goes in.

Why this topic matters

The skills that got graduates hired in 2022 aren't the same as the skills getting them hired now. Employers are looking for different things. Assessments are changing. The advice on most university careers pages hasn't caught up. This lesson breaks down the five skills actually moving the needle in 2026, the three quietly doing less than they used to, and how to start building the gap.

You'll learn from

Jasmine Hasmatali

Head of Marketing and Communications, Breakthrough Social Enterprise

Jasmine didn't start her career in tech. She came to it through human rights law, writing her dissertation at the intersection of human rights and digital inclusion, at the University of Edinburgh. This sparked a genuine concern about who gets left behind when new systems arrive. That question led her to Breakthrough.


Before finding Breakthrough, like many new grads Jasmine applied to 50+ jobs across 8 months, had more coffee chats than she could count and through a series of very fortunate events ended up finding the perfect role at the perfect time.


Now, as Head of Marketing, she leads strategy and communications across a dual-brand organisation, builds the tools and workflows her team actually uses, and spends a lot of time thinking about how to explain important things clearly. In the age of AI, storytelling has become a clear skill and she uses her humanities background to help shape and tell meaningful stories. She builds strategy, develops AI workflows, and leads communications for a mission she genuinely believes in. She is proof that you don't need a computer science degree or technical background to do meaningful work in tech.

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