Mapping trends and analysing key drivers to formulate future scenarios may be evidence-backed but these scenarios are still speculative at best. The debate helps setting agenda for human resource development planning by identifying priority skills that youth needs to take up the high-paid, high-skilled jobs of the future. The future landscape of the world in 2040 may turn out to be radically different from the present and the past. So in this marathon for future jobs, we should be looking to compete on quality instead of running the race to the bottom on wages. C-suite executives are already asking questions about what it takes to meet future talent demands for smooth enterprise-wide transformations.

Source: The Express Tribune March 06, 2019 04:07 UTC