
Jul 22, 2017 ● Peter Jones
Top 7 Job Skills You’ll Need in 10 Years if You Don't Want to Get Left Behind
There’s an awful lot of doomsday chatter about the future of the workforce and how all our jobs will be replaced by robots by 2020. A lot of that might be true. The World Economic Forum’s 2016 Future of Jobs Report estimated that over 5 million jobs will be lost to automation by that time—and that number will only continue to grow. Your usual fall back jobs—you know those “safe bets” your parents always lectured you about: manufacturing, law, administrative jobs, etc.—these will probably suffer the most cuts.
But the good news is this: in times of great change, there’s always room for the enterprising and entrepreneurial to clean up. It’s just that there will be new and different skills to master—skills that will be most valuable in a new economy and in a changing world.
Here are some of the top skills you’ll need if you want to get a leg up on the future of the workforce.