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Future-proofing skills in the technology industry

Learning Pool

While automation and AI will produce many efficiencies – which include making some roles and people redundant – they will also, by transforming business activities, create the need for new roles and new categories of knowledge workers. This may mean up and re-skilling entire workforces.

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Harness human skills to build future-ready teams

CLO Magazine

For knowledge workers everywhere, the nature of work is shifting fast. According to LinkedIn , workplace skills have changed by 25 percent since 2015, but that number is expected to double by 2027. Put another way, half of the skills knowledge workers have today will be useless in less than five years.

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Skills Capability Building – Knowledge Workforce VS Frontline Workforce

Disprz

fall in the category of knowledge workers. While employees directly facing the customers like delivery executives, restaurant waiters, retail sales reps, etc are considered frontline workers. Due to digital acceleration and changing customer expectations, skill capability building has become even more crucial post-pandemic.

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Maximizing employee performance in telecommunications

Learning Pool

To maintain the pace of invention and change, telecoms companies require highly skilled and motivated employees who can consistently perform at the highest level. Data-centric businesses like telecoms will require cohorts of highly trained, specialized knowledge workers to take them forward. trillion US dollars in 2023.

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The Skills Gap –  The Correlation Between Training & the Skills Gap – Part III

Jigsaw Interactive

You’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating: Hire for talent, train for skill. Kristoffer Lundberg, of Insurtech Insights, says, “Skill is [the] ability to complete a task, like sales, accounting, or management. Talent, however, is the behavioral foundation that allows you to develop and perform the skill” ( Medium ).

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Skill analytics – Beyond learning and skilling for better ROI

Disprz

Analytics can even be applied to skilling and development for digging deeper into learning behavior to improve the overall experience. Without a clear measurement plan, it is difficult to interpret the success of skilling initiatives taken by the organization or determine what needs to be changed in the current model.

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Coursera research in the WEF Future of Jobs Report 2023: learners without degrees can learn critical skills just as fast as degree holders

Coursera

By Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera CEO Today, the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched its Future of Jobs Report 2023 that analyzes the impact of current labor market disruptions and reveals the outlook for technology adoption, jobs, and skills in the next five years.

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