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.
Technology design and programming
3.
Leadership and social influence
4.
Active learning and learning strategies
5.
Creativity, originality and initiative
6.
Critical thinking and analysis
7.
Service orientation
8.
Emotional intelligence
9.
Quality control and safety awareness
10.
Management of personnel
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
Look to automate the work
Retrain existing employees
Expect existing employees to pick up skills on
the job
Hire new temporary staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Outsource some business functions to external
contractors
Hire freelancers 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
Projected use of training providers
Share of companies surveyed
41.3%
Internal learning and development
22.1%
External online training
19.6%
Private training providers
6.7%
Private educational institutions
5.4%
Public training providers
4.9%
Public educational institutions
2 / 2
94%
82%
82%
76%
71%
59%
53%
DURATION OF RESKILLING
Less than 1 month
17.1%
1 to 3 months
18.7%
3 to 6 months
19.2%
6 to 12 months
16.5%
Over 1 year
28.5%
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