The Skills Imperative 2035 is a five-year research programme which aims to help government, business, and other stakeholders address future skills shortages by identifying the skills that will be most vital across the labour market, estimating future gaps in these skills, examining the determinants of skill development, and identifying the groups…

In July 2022 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that they had made errors coding occupational data in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for 2021. These errors were subsequently corrected and the ONS published revised LFS data for 2021 in summer 2023. LFS data up to 2021 played a central role in the production of the Skills Imperative…

This report provides revised figures and tables for an analysis of the demand for skills in the labour market in 2035. A list of the tables and figures is provided.

The labour market is changing. Twelve million people work in occupations that are projected to decline, putting them at higher risk of losing their jobs. This report provides recommendations for supporting more of these workers in to successfully transition into growing areas of the labour market. This is the first recommendations report to be…

This stage of "The Skills Imperative 2035" research programme assesses "What skills will be needed most in the labour market of the future?" The approach to addressing this question is to combine detailed forecasts of employment in the jobs of the future together with projections of the skills that will be used in those jobs.…

This study aimed to comprehend the patterns and scope of the education mismatch in the Moroccan labor market by collecting and analyzing an extensive database of the types of skills that fuel economic expansion and growth. A self-assessment approach was used to determine the extent of mismatch in Morocco by adopting the World Bank's Skills Toward…

Global megatrends, such as digitalisation, and contemporary crises have highlighted the importance of continuous development and learning in the work context. Learning can be inspiring and motivating but also stressful when generating competence that is not applicable or has poor utilisability. In this study, we approached the ambivalent nature of…

The work landscape is evolving with the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), potentially rendering current jobs obsolete and necessitating new skills or retraining of existing occupations for future employment. This revolution is disrupting nearly every sector, including education, highlighting the need for education to address issues…

The paper aims to reconsider the concept of youth in Central Asia and Russia through the prism of new trends in the aging of human resources in the digital economy of the future. The methodological basis of this research consists of general scientific methods, including the methods of induction, deduction, analysis, and synthesis. The authors…

The automation of job tasks due to technological change increases the pressure on workers whose jobs consist largely of such activities. In this context, politics and science attach great importance to further training, although the benefits for affected workers have hardly been investigated. Drawing on human capital theory and the task-based…

This study aims to develop a scale that will determine the factors causing professional obsolescence in the field of education. In this context, the Professional Obsolescence Scale (POS) has been developed to determine the professional and organizational obsolescence of primary, secondary and high school administrators. In this scale development…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on issues regarding the influence of skill-polarized workplace on jobs, human capital and organization from human resource development's (HRD's) perspective, this research identified 30 displaceable skills from endangered jobs and examined 423 adult employees' awareness and…

In November 2018 the European Training Foundation (ETF) launched an international reflection to investigate how global trends impact developing and transition economies and to discuss what actions need to be taken to prepare people for a changing world and manage their transitions towards uncertain futures. This study on the future of skills in…

Competence in contemporary working life requirements is increasingly aligned with electronically mediated tasks and work roles: ie, the digitalisation of work. This alignment necessitates workers learning and utilising the conceptual knowledge and ways of working needed for this work. This knowledge is often distinct from and displaces workers'…

Increasingly those working in higher education are tasked with targeting their teaching approaches and techniques to improve the "employability" of graduates. However, this approach is promoted with little recognition that enhanced employability does not guarantee employment outcomes or the tensions inherent in pursuing this agenda. The…