课程: The Future of Workplace Learning

The skills gap is becoming an abyss

课程: The Future of Workplace Learning

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The skills gap is becoming an abyss

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- I'm not going to tell you the robots are coming because they're already here and they're here to stay. AI and automation are part of our everyday lives now, and their impact is felt everywhere. According to the World Economic Forum, 23% of jobs will change by 2027. When you slice jobs into skills, 44% of individual skills will need upgrading in the next few years. In other words, the skills gap has become an abyss. So what does this mean? First of all, what you learned at school will no longer get you through your career. The average lifespan of a skill is just three to five years now, and it's shrinking fast. No one is immune. Lifelong learning is not just a key to innovation and growth, but to keeping our jobs. It also means that organizations are competing for a smaller and smaller pool of talent. Take data scientists and analysts, for example. The demands for these types of skills is expected to go up 30 to 35%, and that's 1.4 million jobs. So why not just hire people then? Well, even if your company has the budget, you may well not find people with the skills to fill critical gaps. That's why we've got to break the vicious cycle of hire, fire, hire because one, it's extremely expensive. Two, candidates for key roles simply won't be available or they won't want to work for you. And three, your company culture and business itself could suffer because knowledge of your products, services, and ways of working are lost when your employees churn every few years. No matter how you look at it, workplace learning is no longer a nice to have, but a must have, and we've got to get it right.

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