thinking to be growing in importance slightly more minority of industries. rapidly than analytical thinking. Technology literacy is the third-fastest growing core skill. Figure 4.4 illustrates industry-specific variations in the evolving importance of skills. Physical Among the 2023 core skills identified in Figure 4.2, abilities, which comprise manual dexterity and self-efficacy skills rank above working with others in precision and sensory processing abilities, are the rate of increase in importance of skills reported growing in demand most quickly in the Care, by businesses. The socio-emotional attitudes which Personal Service and Wellbeing; Agriculture, businesses consider to be growing in importance Forestry and Fishing; Mining and Metals; and most quickly are curiosity and lifelong learning; Advanced Manufacturing industries. The Care and resilience, flexibility and agility; and motivation Agriculture sectors also forecast the fastest growth and self-awareness – evidence that businesses in importance for management skills, which include emphasize the importance of resilient and reflective talent management, resource management and workers embracing a culture of lifelong learning operations, and quality control. as the lifecycle of their skills decreases. Systems thinking, AI and big data, talent management, and Engagement skills – which comprise marketing service orientation and customer service complete and media and service orientation and customer the top 10. service – are growing in importance most quickly in the Care, Personal Services and Well-being; While respondents judged no skills to be in Accommodation, Food and Leisure; and Media, net decline, sizable minorities of companies Entertainment and Sports sectors. Technology judge reading, writing and mathematics; global skills are increasing in importance in Care, Personal citizenship; sensory-processing abilities; and Services and Wellbeing and in two sub-industries manual dexterity, endurance and precision to be of within Financial Services: Insurance and Pensions declining importance for their workers. These four Management and Financial Services and Capital skills are judged to be increasing in importance least Markets. Increased demand for cognitive skills quickly by survey respondents. such as analytical thinking and creative thinking is most evident in the Electronics and Chemical The declining importance of physical abilities has and Advanced Materials industries and in been a feature of previous Future of Jobs Reports. Nongovernmental and Membership Organizations. Ethical skills have been introduced to the report’s Socio-emotional attitudes related to self-efficacy, skills taxonomy for the first time in this edition, working with others and ethics are increasing in with 68% of companies believing that consumers importance most quickly in the Oil and Gas; Care, becoming more vocal on social and environmental Personal Services and Wellbeing; and Electronics issues is likely or highly likely to drive transformation industries. within their organization in the next five years (see Chapter 2). Workers will require skills training if Taking into account all industries in the survey, companies are to meet the increasing ethical increasing skill demands are particularly evident in demands placed on them as a result of adopting Care, Personal Services and Wellbeing, which ranks frontier technologies and adapting to the green in the top five of 27 industries across all skill clusters transition. Yet, such an emphasis is currently not of the Global Skills Taxonomy. evident in Future of Jobs Survey data except in a Future of Jobs Report 2023 40