This article is part of the The Jobs Reset Summit
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.
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.
- 50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025, as adoption of technology increases, according the 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.
But the very technological disruption that is transforming jobs can also provide the key to creating them — and help us learn new skills.
The Forum estimates that 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.
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.
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.
Find out more detailed information about all these 10 skills and how to develop them in yourself from further blogs.