29/11/2020
The world of work is changing – and some jobs are changing faster than others. According to the latest research, soon we'll only be as good as the skills we possess. But which skills are they, and how can we make sure we keep pace?
To get an idea of what challenges lie ahead, and the tools needed to tackle them, we ask a selection of career experts and CEOs and that age-old question: where do you see yourself in 10 years' time?
- 50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025, as the adoption of technology increases, according to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills employers believe will grow in prominence in the next five years.
- Newly emerging this year are skills in self-management such as active learning, resilience, stress tolerance, and flexibility.
- Respondents to the Future of Jobs Survey estimate that around 40% of workers will require reskilling of six months or less.
Half of us will need to re-skill in the next five years, as the "double-disruption" of the economic impacts of the pandemic and increasing automation transforming jobs takes hold.
That's according to the third edition of the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report, which maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change and direction of travel.
But the very technological disruption that is transforming jobs can also provide the key to creating them – and help us learn new skills.
The top 10 skills
Greater adoption of technology will mean in-demand skills across jobs change over the next five years, and skills gaps will continue to be high.
For those workers who stay in their roles, the share of core skills that will change by 2025 is 40%, and 50% of all employees will need reskilling (up 4%).
Critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills that employers believe will grow in prominence in the next five years. These have been consistent since the first report in 2016.
But newly emerging this year are skills in self-management such as active learning, resilience, stress tolerance, and flexibility.
For details Read The Article:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/top-10-work-skills-of-tomorrow-how-long-it-takes-to-learn-them/
This year, data from LinkedIn and online learning platform Coursera has allowed the Forum to track with unprecedented granularity the types of specialized skills are needed for the jobs of tomorrow, which are in demand across multiple emerging professions.
Among these ‘cross-cutting’ skills are specialized skills in product marketing, digital marketing, and human-computer interaction.
Here is the link to Future of Jobs Report 2020.
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2020.pdf
Source: Future Jobs Report 2020, World Economic Forum
