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FIGURE 4.4 Shares of organizations which consider skills within the corresponding skill category to be growing in importance for their workers from

2023 to 2027, as opposed to having stable or declining importance. The top seven industries out of the 27 studied in this report are selected in each case, and ranked.

1. Electronics


2. Non-governmental and Membership Organisations


3. Chemical and Advanced Materials


4. Care, Personal Services and Wellbeing


5. Government and Public Sector


6. Oil and Gas


7. Media, Entertainment and Sports

71.2%

70.0%

67.7%

67.4%

67.0%

66.0%

64.4%

Cognitive skills

1. Care, Personal Services and Wellbeing


2. Insurance and Pensions Management


3. Information and Technology Services


4. Employment Services


5. Energy Technology and Utilities


6. Financial Services and Capital Markets


7. Chemical and Advanced Materials

71.9%

70.7%

70.1%

69.7%

67.9%

67.4%

67.2%

Technology skills

1. Care, Personal Services and Wellbeing


2. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing


3. Non-governmental and Membership Organisations


4. Chemical and Advanced Materials


5. Education and Training


6. Automotive and Aerospace


7. Electronics

77.2%

74.0%

71.4%

70.7%

65.0%

64.5%

64.2%

Management skills

1. Care, Personal Services and Wellbeing


2. Accommodation, Food and Leisure


3. Media, Entertainment and Sports


4. Non-governmental and Membership Organisations
   5. Oil and Gas


5. Education and Training


6. Electronics

71.8%

68.7%

68.6%

66.7%

64.9%

60.0%

60.0%

Engagement skills

72.0%

70.8%

66.0%

64.9%

63.9%

62.0%

61.7%

1. Oil and Gas


2. Care, Personal Services and Wellbeing


3. Electronics


4. Automotive and Aerospace


5. Chemical and Advanced Materials


6. Non-governmental and Membership Organisations


7. Education and Training

Self-efficacy, working with others and ethics

52.6%

47.8%

43.1%

40.8%

40.4%

39.2%

38.8%

1. Care, Personal Services and Wellbeing


2. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing


3. Chemical and Advanced Materials


4. Research, Design and Business Management Services


5. Advanced Manufacturing


6. Mining and Metals


7. Retail and Wholesale of Consumer Goods

Physical abilities

Source
World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Survey 2023.
Note
The Future of Jobs Survey uses the World Economic Forum's Global Skills Taxonomy. Industries are categorised according to an optimised 27 sectors based on respondent statistics.

Top industries for increasing skill requirements, 2023–2027

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