Skills of the Future 10 Skills Youll Need to Thrive in 2020 - Margaret Buj - Interview Coach

Skills of the Future 10 Skills Youll Need to Thrive in 2020 Acquiring skills for the job and career that you want takes time. You learned some of these skills while you were a kid, and some just recently. But what’s consistent with these is the effort you put in learning them. There will be moments that some of these skills like emotional and social skills are innate. The recruitment industry is always on the lookout for the newest and freshest talents. In these talents, they look for a specific set of skills. The skills that recruiters were looking for in the 2000s are normal now in the industry, but in the future, they’re going to hire people with another set of specific skills. In 2020, it’ll be important for you to have cognitive flexibility. This means that you’ll be able to put on many hats and be good at it. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have a specific position at hand, but an all-around arsenal in your pocket, which will allow you to understand different types of problems because you can see it in multiple perspectives. In this infographic by Guthrie Jensen, know the different skills that’ll help you survive the recruitment industry in 2020, as well as the top industries and in-demand jobs by 2020. Skills of the Future 10 Skills Youll Need to Thrive in 2020 By the year 2020, experts predict that about 5 million workers will lose their jobs due to automation and artificial intelligence (AI). What does this mean? Both good and bad. The so-called fourth industrial revolution will be the next phase in the evolution of technology, and weve already seen a glimpse of it in inventions like self-driving cars and the Internet of Things. The fourth industrial revolution seeks to interconnect these technologies further to make better ways of doing things. Unfortunately, with the good comes the bad. As technology advances, the need for new types of jobs will arise. Fields like marketing and sales are already integrating technologies like big data and the cloud to maximize their productivity. As AI comes up with smarter and more capable machines, many jobs will be handed over to bots, and humans who previously did those jobs need to learn a new set of skills to adapt to the demand. This infographic explains the ten skills that are likely to see the most demand in the job market by 2020. Job seekers who are planning their career should keep these in mind, as well as recruiters and HR specialists so that they can have a better idea on the best recruitment strategy in the future. This infographic was created by Guthrie Jensen.