With the rapid pace of change in our world driven by new technologies, our workplaces and the skills employees are expected to have are changing quickly as well. In order to be relevant in the workplaces of the future, there are important skills to build. Here are the 5 most important job skills for the future.

1. The 5 Most Important
Job Skills
For The Future

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Our workplaces are changing, and the changes are dramatic. Professionals
need to pay attention to and prepare for the workplaces of the future. An
important aspect of this preparation is to develop the job skills that will help
you succeed and thrive in the new reality of the next decade. Consider how
your own career has evolved over the last five years, and you can imagine
how much it may change in the next five. These are the most important job
skills for the future, and there's no better time than now to start building them.
The 5 Most Important Job Skills
For The Future

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Why all the change?
The pace of change is being driven by several factors. Our world is more interconnected
than ever before, allowing us to work remotely and work with people from different
cultures as easily as if they were in the office next door. People are living and working
longer, which creates an age-diverse workforce. In addition, what was once science fiction
has become a reality for many of us—machines augment our skills, free us up to focus on
higher-level activities, and can even be our colleagues today. We are now collecting and
able to process data to use it to our business advantage in a way that was never possible
previously.
With all these changes, the skills employers will seek from their human workforce and
what professionals need to develop as marketable skills to get the jobs of the future have
changed.
The 5 Most Important Job Skills for the Future are as follows.

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Emotional Intelligence
Organizations have been looking for people who are emotionally intelligent for quite
some time, but it’s becoming more and more important. What is emotional intelligence?
It’s our ability to understand and express our own emotions, as well as understand
someone else’s emotions. Developing emotional intelligence (EQ) is something everyone
should be focusing on.

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Creativity
As humans, we have this amazing ability to be creative, imagine, and invent new things.
Creativity boosts innovation, which results in economic growth. It’s fresh thinking that will
give companies a competitive advantage so every company will want creative employees
in the future. If your company employs people who can figure out how to do things
nobody else is doing, it will stand out. It’s important to realize that creativity isn’t the sole
skill of artists. Creativity can be improved and fostered in anyone’s life.

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Flexibility and Adaptability
What we’re currently seeing is fewer and fewer skills and jobs for life. Therefore, we need
to constantly adapt and learn new things. In fact, the half-life of skills is reducing at a
drastic rate. What we’ve learned today will be out of date in two or three years' time.
Everyone will need to build their flexibility and adaptability skills, so they are prepared to
update their skills every few years and accept new ways of doing things.

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Data Literacy
Data is the fuel of the 4th industrial revolution that we’re experiencing today. Companies
are bombarded by data. The data explosion is worthless to companies unless their people
have the data skills to extract insights and make better decisions based on the data. There
is a big data skills gap in the market at the moment. While not everyone needs to be a
data scientist, all professionals should be data literate. The first step to improve data
literacy is to be curious, keep asking “why” and own the data you are already exposed to.
You should figure out where the data comes from and how to use it.

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Tech Savviness
The final important job skill for the future is tech-savviness. The 4th industrial
revolution is bringing together a lot of major technology trends. On their own,
these individual technologies would transform businesses, but together they are
completing reshaping our world. These technologies include artificial
intelligence, big data, extended reality robotics, internet of things, 3D printing,
and blockchain, and when they interact with each other, it's changing our world.
Everyone needs to understand what these changes are, how fast these different
technologies are developing, and what that means for your business.

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understand the implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data,
blockchains, and the Internet of Things.
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contributor to the World Economic Forum and writes a regular column for Forbes. Every day
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© 2019 Bernard Marr, Bernard Marr & Co. All rights reserved
Bernard Marr is an internationally best-selling author, popular keynote speaker, futurist, and a
strategic business & technology advisor to governments and companies. He helps
organisations improve their business performance, use data more intelligently, and
understand the implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data,
blockchains, and the Internet of Things.
LinkedIn has ranked Bernard as one of the world’s top 5 business influencers. He is a frequent
contributor to the World Economic Forum and writes a regular column for Forbes. Every day
Bernard actively engages his 1.5 million social media followers and shares content that
reaches millions of readers.
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