Human Age 2.0
Jonas Prising, Chairman & CEO, ManpowerGroup
“Changes in the world of work are accelerating at a pace and scale never seen before."
The future of work and skills
In today’s Skills Revolution, technology is transforming organizations, and skills needs are changing rapidly, accelerating a global talent shortage that threatens productivity, sustainability and growth. Organizations should adopt integrated workforce strategies to secure the skilled talent needed for today and tomorrow.
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Skills Revolution 2.0
Robots Need Not Apply: Human Solutions for the Skills Revolution
The “Skills Revolution 2.0” survey shows that digitization in companies will create more jobs than it will replace. In Switzerland, more than nine in ten employers expect to maintain or increase their headcount in the next two to three years to remain competitive in this era of mass automation in companies. The main challenge for organisations and individuals alike is to combine specifically human skills with digital know-how to adapt to a fast-changing world of work.
About the survey: In October 2017, ManpowerGroup commissioned Infocorp to carry out quantitative research surveying 19,718 employers in six industry sectors across 42 countries. Employers were asked about the impact of automation on the workforce; the jobs that are the most positively or negatively affected by the huge increase in the use of technology in all industries and the human skills they value the most and which they struggle to find when faced with increasing use of robots.
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A skills revolution: from consumers of work to builders of talent
Expanding and updating skills and potential are now crucial when it comes to staying relevant in the world of work. Whether through upskilling or reskilling, workers need to nurture their learnability and continue life-long learning throughout their career in order to stay employable.
This is even more important in light of the conclusions of the World Economic Forum held in Davos last January, which predict that by 2020, more than a third of the core skill sets in most professions will be comprised of skills that are not considered essential to the job today.
Businesses must act now by addressing the gap between those with skills and those without (the Haves vs. the Have Nots) to ensure that they can continue to meet their talent needs in the immediate future.
Discover your learnability quotient
We are witnessing a revolution in the world of work. Technology is rewriting the rule book (*): 65% of roles which will be filled in a few years do not exist yet; 45% of current tasks could be automated. Therefore, a person’s employability – that is their ability to secure or keep their desired job – no longer depends on what they already know but what they will be able to learn. This is what we are calling the Skills Revolution (*Sources: The Future of Jobs, World Economic Forum 2016. Four Fundamentals of Workplace Automation, McKinsey 2015).
We have developed this test in partnership with Hogan Assessments which will allow you to evaluate how you adapt to new circumstances and new challenges. You will be able to use the results to make decisions about your advanced professional training, discuss your career with your manager or market your skills to potential employers.
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The labour market has become “distorted” and needs recalibrating. While its former constituent elements are breaking apart, a new, 21st-century world of work is beginning to emerge. In a report entitled Human Age 2.0: The Future of Work, ManpowerGroup calls for a change in how we think of work and its market. Drawing on observations and analyses, this white paper proposes strategies for navigating this transformational period in the world of work and for exploiting existing opportunities in order to emerge stronger and robust enough to stay the course and continue to perform in the future. |
Human Age : from capitalism to talentism
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The various eras of history were first defined by the raw materials being worked by early humans – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age – and then by the fields of knowledge acquired by virtue of their technical advances – the Industrial Age, the Space Age, the Information Age. We are now entering a new epoch: the Human Age. This era of the human is founded on a common constant: whereas companies used to have to secure capital in order to grow, nowadays this is no longer enough, because it is expertise and talent that will drive a business forward. Being able to access and tap into that talent is thus becoming the most important competitive advantage a company can hope to gain.
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