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.
Leadership and social influence
2.
Active learning and learning strategies
3.
Analytical thinking and innovation
4.
Quality control and safety awareness
5.
Emotional intelligence
6.
Technology use, monitoring and control
7.
Management of personnel
8.
Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility
9.
Persuasion and negotiation
10.
Management of financial, material resources
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
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
Strategic redundancies of staff who lack the skills
to use new technologies
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
49.3%
Internal learning and development
25.9%
External online training
9.4%
Private training providers
7%
Public training providers
4.5%
Private educational institutions
3.9%
Public educational institutions
2 / 2
93%
93%
87%
67%
64%
43%
40%
DURATION OF RESKILLING
Less than 1 month
25.3%
1 to 3 months
26.5%
3 to 6 months
20.3%
6 to 12 months