The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report was released near the end of 2020. Unfortunately, I have not heard many employers talking about it. The report predicts that “50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025, as adoption of technology increases” (Whiting, 2020).
According to the Future of Jobs report, the top 10 skills of 2025 include (Whiting, 2020):
- Analytical thinking and innovation
- Active learning and learning strategies
- Complex problem-solving
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Creativity, originality, and initiative
- Leadership and social influence
- Technology use, monitoring, and control
- Technology design and programming
- Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility
- Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation
As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued, many organizations have eliminated training programs to control costs. Some organizations have decided to postpone training until employees can safely gather together in person. As a result, many organizations will not have prepared their employees to master the skills needed in 2025.
K-12 schools have largely focused their efforts on math and language arts standardized testing instead of many of the skills included on this list. Many employees will enter the workforce needing training in these skills.
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References:
Whiting, K. (2020, Oct. 21). These are the top 10 job skills of tomorrow – and how long it takes to learn them. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/top-10-work-skills-of-tomorrow-how-long-it-takes-to-learn-them/#:~:text=up%204%25