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These Are the Top 10 Job Skills of Tomorrow – and How Long It Takes to Learn Them

50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025, as adoption of technology increases, according the the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report. 

Critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills employers believe will grow in prominence in the next five years. 

Newly emerging this year are skills in self-management such as active learning, resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility.

Respondents to the Future of Jobs Survey estimate that around 40% of workers will require reskilling of six months or less.

Half of us will need to reskill in the next five years, as the "double-disruption" of the economic impacts of the pandemic and increasing automation transforming jobs takes hold.


That's according to the third edition of the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report, which maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change and direction of travel.


But the very technological disruption that is transforming jobs can also provide the key to creating them – and help us learn new skills.

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