Growth opportunities are greatest for professional and tech services firms and other sectors such as wholesale and retail, manufacturing, and financial services. The digital skill shortage is a big problem for marketing and media companies too, where employers need people with creative as well as technical knowledge. There is a digital talent shortage in manufacturing as well, particularly in areas such as design and integration.
Key Takeaways:
- All of this potential for job losses and gains is creating a demand for people to reskill or upskill for a digital world of work.
- Those differences can be measured by very different stakes and scales of cultural capital, social capital, and real economic capital.
- Education, recruiting and training professions have traditionally been regarded as distinct, distantly related parts of the job placement pipeline.
“Speaking of the long term, there are a lot bigger reasons why top recruiters are investing so much in digital skills now.”
