What Are The Top 9 Job Skills For The Future?

Critical Thinking 

Reasoning - It is a key skill for many companies and teams to evolve and develop new solutions in the best possible way. The reasoning needs to be built on observations, various data resources, and also following logical argument structures.

Digital literacy and computational thinking 

As the world continues to rely on highly technical and continuously evolving technologies, the need for those with the digital skills to match also increases.

Analytical Thinking

Analytical thinking has some similarities with critical thinking. It heavily relies on logical reasoning and tries to eliminate emotions.

Collaboration

Working on a team to achieve a common objective. It involves organizational skills, communication skills, adaptability, and openness. Collaboration skills can be also associated with leadership skills.

Adaptability / Flexibility 

Next to learning new things (mentioned before) we also need to be adaptive. Changing roles, changing colleagues, disruptive business models, and many new (digital) channels.

Communication &  Coordination 

The world gets more complex and every task usually involves more than just one person. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how to best communicate and coordinate within a team, company, or with external stakeholders.

Emotional and social intelligence 

For everything that can be replaced by digital technologies and artificial intelligence, emotional and social intelligence remain uniquely human capabilities.

Creativity, Ideation, and Innovation 

A key skill to develop solutions, processes, and products of the future. This is also a skill machine currently can not compete with and therefore a very future-proof skill to develop.

Cognitive flexibility

The rise of digital technologies means you’re going to need to be able to handle the plethora of opportunities and challenges that come with it.

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