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.
Leadership and social influence
3.
Active learning and learning strategies
4.
Technology design and programming
5.
Critical thinking and analysis
6.
Complex problem-solving
7.
Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation
8.
Creativity, originality and initiative
9.
Service orientation
10.
Technology use, monitoring and control
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
Expect existing employees to pick up skills on
the job
Retrain existing employees
Look to automate the work
Hire new permanent staff with skills relevant to
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
Average reskilling needs
Share of workforce of companies surveyed within this data
Projected use of training providers
Share of companies surveyed
40.7%
Internal learning and development
20.4%
External online training
17.5%
Private training providers
7.2%
Private educational institutions
7.2%
Public training providers
6.9%
Public educational institutions
2 / 2
90%
89%
85%
83%
70%
68%
55%
DURATION OF RESKILLING
Less than 1 month
18.7%
1 to 3 months
18.8%
3 to 6 months
20.9%
6 to 12 months
19.9%
Over 1 year
21.7%
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