Top 5 Skills Needed for the Future of Work

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StanbicIBTC Bank

Regardless of your professional endeavors, your goal at this crucial time should be to acquire employable as well as future-ready skills to meet the needs of current and future employment trends. Here are some other tips to help you stand out in today’s crowded job market and set yourself up for financial success and freedom in the future.

• Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Our empathic abilities as humans cannot easily be replaced by a machine. As such, high EQs will be in demand.

• Critical Thinking: With the advancement of automation and Al, human critical thinking will be in demand as robots do not yet have human ethics and judgement capabilities.

• Boost your Creativity: Creativity is a cognitive skill that will be in high demand in the coming years.

• Innovation: According to the World Economic Forum. “Innovation Professional” will be a high demand role in the future of work as it requires alternative thinking for problem solving.

• Active Learning/Growth Mindset: As the pace of work becomes ‘real-time’ focused, one should be ready to take on challenges, adapt in diverse environments and commit to lifelong learning to remain relevant.

• Put yourself out there: Employers will move from requesting resumes to more hands on engagements with prospective employees. Create your own personal webpage to showcase your skills, experience testimonials and portfolio.