System Connections

Education and Skills Transformation Map

Source: World Economic Forum

Education: Specialized, Quality and Innovation

  • supply and demand gap for in-demand skills
  • accelerated, changing skill requirements
  • increased need for career advice and guidance
  • collaboration between employers, industry groups, education
  • inequities in education hinders learning new skills
  • innovation in learning/delivery: gamified, personalized, blended

21st Century Curricula, Digital Fluency & STEM

  • relevant to modern workplace & develops citizenship values
  • cultivate core non-cognitive skills for future economies and job market; reskilling and self-actualization (T-Shape professionals)
  • 2016-2026 - fasting growing jobs require math or science; ensure access for all socio-economic groups and gender.

Lifelong Learning Pathways

  • anticipate labor market disruptions
  • adaptive re-skilling/gaining new in-demand skills for short and long-term training options for all stages in career path
  • nearly 84% of world's talent under age 25 optimized via education and falls to 45% for those over 25


Workforce and Employment Transformation Map

Source: World Economic Forum

Disruption to Jobs/Skills & Inclusive Labor Markets

  • world of work is changing fast
  • proactive talent mgt. strategies - business, gov't, education
  • re-skilling: short-cycle courses, on job experience, new projects
  • better access to professional networks
  • re-configure work/replacement of works due to new technologies
  • gender gap: EMC 19%:6%; ICT industries 7%:3%; Google - ageism

Safety Net and New Training/Certification Systems

  • agile and portable benefit safety nets during transition
  • paradigm shift - front-loaded to continuous lifetime re-skilling;
  • as much as 14% of global workforce may need to switch occupational categories by 2030 - digitalization, automation, AI

Job Creation, Demographics and Work Models

  • entrepreneurship - creates 200+ jobs; enables scaling up in size
  • varying labor market demographics - no single model for talent
  • need - updated worker classifications and labor regulations
  • by 2027 est. 145+ million Americans "independent workers"