The re-skilling revolution needs to start today

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional social network, has a unique understanding of the future of work. Drawing on its massive database of interactions, profiles, and job openings, it has identified early trends about how the job market is morphing under rapid technological innovation. 

In an illuminating post, Allen Blue, LinkedIn co-founder and VP of Product Management, shares key insights about what companies and job-seekers can do to get prepared for what’s to come. Change is coming faster than we may expect, he argues, and if organizations and society continue with the status quo, groups such as women risk facing even deeper inequality. That’s why he calls the reskilling revolution an urgent matter that must be tackled by all parts of society. 

Read Blue’s full insights

Resources: 

WEF_Jobs_of_Tomorrow_2020.pdf (weforum.org) 

 Towards a Reskilling Revolution: Industry-Led Action for the Future of Work | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) 

Network gap | Social Impact (linkedin.com) 

Global Social Mobility Index 2020 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)  

AI Talent in the European Labour Market (linkedin.com) 

The Gender Gap: To close gender gaps in the future, we need more women in emerging jobs today (linkedin.com) 

The Skills Companies Need Most in 2019 – And How to Learn Them (linkedin.com) 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means and how to respond | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) 

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