O c t o b e r 2 The Future of Jobs

Current skills in focus of existing reskilling/upskilling
programmes
Share of companies surveyed identifying this skill as being in focus
across their reskilling or upskilling programmes
1.
Active learning and learning strategies
2.
Creativity, originality and initiative
3.
Critical thinking and analysis
4.
Troubleshooting and user experience
5.
Analytical thinking and innovation
6.
Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation
7.
Quality control and safety awareness
8.
Persuasion and negotiation
9.
Management of personnel
10.
Leadership and social influence
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
Retrain existing employees
Expect existing employees to pick up skills on
the job
Hire new permanent staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Look to automate the work
Hire new temporary staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Hire freelancers with skills relevant to new
technologies
Outsource some business functions to external
contractors
Average reskilling needs
Share of workforce of companies surveyed within this data
Projected use of training providers
Share of companies surveyed
26.1%
Internal learning and development
23.1%
Private training providers
17.5%
Public educational institutions
15.9%
Private educational institutions
14%
External online training
3.4%
Public training providers
2 / 2
88%
88%
75%
69%
69%
69%
38%
DURATION OF RESKILLING
Less than 1 month
33.3%
1 to 3 months
15.9%
3 to 6 months
18.4%
6 to 12 months
14%
Over 1 year