This is a comparative study of the digital and social competency requirements in job advertisements directed towards librarians in Sweden and the United States. The purpose of this study is both explorative and comparative, as the most in-demand competencies are analyzed and presented. The results are presented, analyzed, and discussed using a combination of descriptive statistics and the theoretical described by Le Deist and Winterton(2005). Furthermore, the results of this study are related to and add to the earlier research within this research domain. Similarities were found, as social competencies such as the ability to collaborate and build relationships are highly prevalent in both countries. However, some differences are also identified, as leadership is more highly requested in U.S. job advertisements, while a personal fit is uniquely identified in the Swedish collection of advertisements. Advertisements in both countries requested social and functional competencies, and more rarely cognitive competency. They were rarely isolated except in the case of personality traits. There was, however, a higher prevalence of functional tasks connected explicitly and implicitly to both digital and social competencies requested in the advertisements collected from U.S. employers. There was also a higher demand for digital competencies overall in U.S. advertisements. The most prominent digital competencies mentioned in both collections were digital instructions, and while both collections requested general IT knowledge, knowledge about library-specific elements such as digital resources and cataloging was more frequently mentioned in the U.S. advertisements.