La deuxième édition du rapport "Future of Jobs" du Forum économique mondial prévoit la perte de 75 millions d'emplois d'ici 2025. Mais il prévoit aussi la création de 133 millions d'emplois grâce à la révolution numérique. Un solde positif de 58 millions d'emplois ; c’est plutôt optimiste, non ?
Among the most sought-after jobs, we will obviously find many professions linked to new technologies and digital applications such as machine learning, AI and big data: data scientists, developers, growth hackers, etc. Other profiles sought will be more "traditional", such as salespeople, marketing managers or learning officers...
But the future is still uncertain. One thing is certain, however: in addition to knowledge, soft skills will play an increasingly important role in the criteria sought by companies on the job market.
The World Economic Forum advises us on the essential skills to be taken into account and evaluated today and tomorrow, with forecasts for 2022! Not surprisingly, these are essentially soft skills... The good news is that more than 90% of the skills identified by the World Economic Forum are addressed and covered by the SIGMUND recruitment test catalogue.
Today :
- Analytical thinking and innovation
- Complex problem solving
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Active learning and learning strategies
- Creativity, originality and initiative
- Attention to detail, reliability
- Emotional intelligence
- Reasoning, problem solving and ideation
- Leadership and social influence
- Coordination and time management
What will change tomorrow?
Active learning and creativity will make a difference and rise in the rankings of most in-demand skills in 2022; emotional intelligence and leadership skills will continue to be in demand. Adaptation to new technologies (teleworking and digitalisation) and programming will become crucial:
(Automatic translation of our French website.)