Md Consulting

The world has rarely moved so fast as last year. In this very particular context, some transformations are just accelerating.

• The Economic Forum is claiming that 50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025, as adoption of technology increases.
• This is interesting to see that Critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills employers believe will grow in prominence in the next five years.
• We also see 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.
• Keep also in mind that half of us will need to reskill in the next five years, as the “double-disruption” of the economic impacts of the pandemic and increasing automation transforming jobs takes hold.
• By 2025, 85 million jobs may be displaced by a shift in the division of labour between humans and machines.
• But even more jobs – 97 million – may emerge that are more adapted to the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms.

This comes from 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.

What are the Top 10 Skills you should be focused ?

• See below the Top 10 skills.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills that 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.

How will it take to reskill people ?

• The vast majority of business leaders (94%) now expect employees to pick up new skills on the job – a sharp rise from 65% in 2018.
• Respondents to the Future of Jobs Survey estimate that around 40% of workers will require reskilling of six months or less, but that number is higher for those in the consumer industry and in the health and healthcare industry.

I am personally happy to see that this reskilling is a top priority.

• Only growth mindset, curiosity and dedicated time to reinvent yourself will allow you to face this reskilling challenge.
• I would love to better understand what are your top priorities in terms of new skills you feel you need to learn.
• Please add it in the comments.