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.
Analytical thinking and innovation
2.
Complex problem-solving
3.
Technology design and programming
4.
Quality control and safety awareness
5.
Leadership and social influence
6.
Critical thinking and analysis
7.
Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation
8.
Creativity, originality and initiative
9.
Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility
10.
Active learning and learning strategies
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
Look to automate the work
Retrain existing employees
Strategic redundancies of staff who lack the skills
to use new technologies
Outsource some business functions to external
contractors
Hire new temporary staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Hire freelancers with skills relevant to new
technologies
Expect existing employees to pick up skills on
the job
Average reskilling needs
Share of workforce of companies surveyed within this data
Projected use of training providers
Share of companies surveyed
55.9%
Internal learning and development
15.8%
External online training
9.5%
Private training providers
7.3%
Public educational institutions
7.3%
Public training providers
4.2%
Private educational institutions
2 / 2
82%
73%
64%
64%
64%
55%
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DURATION OF RESKILLING
Less than 1 month
15.7%
1 to 3 months
27.7%
3 to 6 months
18%
6 to 12 months
22.2%
Over 1 year
16.4%
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