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

United Arab Emirates
Working Age Population
8,112,786
1 / 2
71.7%
82.9%
65.3%
51.8%
71%
70.5%
3.3%
0.8%
11.4%
85.2%
0.9%
32.5%
1.8%
Unemployment rate
—
Unemployment, monthly
—
Unemployment rate change
—
Unemployment rate change, women
—
Unemployment rate change, men
—
89%
84%
84%
84%
81%
77%
76%
65%
57%
56%
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3
5
2
4

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The Future of Jobs
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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 programs
1.
Active learning and learning strategies
2.
Leadership and social influence
3.
Analytical thinking and innovation
4.
Quality control and safety awareness
5.
Complex problem-solving
6.
Critical thinking and analysis
7.
Management of personnel
8.
Creativity, originality and initiative
9.
Technology use, monitoring and control
10.
Service orientation
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
Expect existing employees to pick up skills on
the job
Retrain existing employees
Hire new permanent staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Look to automate the work
Outsource some business functions to external
contractors
Hire new temporary staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Strategic redundancies of staff who lack the skills
to use new technologies
Average reskilling needs
Share of workforce of companies surveyed within this data