1. Reskilling skill focus ranking experiencing decreasing or slightly decreasing use. This is the aggregated ranking using the Borda Period: 2022-2023 method of rankings supplied by surveyed Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs companies regarding their reskilling and upskilling Survey priorities for 2023-2027, based on responses to the question, “Keeping in mind your current strategic direction, please select and rank the skill clusters on which you are focusing your organisation’s reskilling 5. Reskilling focus and upskilling efforts in the next five years”. As respondents selected and ranked different numbers This shows the share of companies for which of skill clusters, the Borda method aggregates the particular skill is a priority in their upskilling results assigning to each skills cluster ranked by the and reskilling programmes in the next five years, respondent a score equal to the total number of skill based on responses to the question, “Keeping in clusters in the list (26) minus the rank assigned by mind your current strategic direction, please select the respondent. For example, a skill cluster ranked the skill clusters on which you are focusing your 7th by a respondent would receive a score equal to organization’s reskilling and upskilling efforts in the 19. Scores are then added together and final results next five years”. used to rank all skills clusters. Period: 2022-2023 Period: 2022-2023 Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Survey Survey 6. Jobs in focus 2. Five-year trend This table shows the top roles where survey This line chart shows the evolution of the share respondents report the particular skill to be of learning hours spent pursuing credentials in increasing in importance fastest, alongside the each level-3 skill in the Global Skills Taxonomy on net growth at the role level in the next five years. Coursera’s online learning platform from 2017 to The top roles are based on the roles selected in 2022. response to the question, “Please provide examples of mass employment roles in your organization that Period: 2017-2022 are expected to have a stable employment outlook Source: Coursera in the next five years”, joined by the share of skill evolution, based on responses to the question, “For the key roles with a stable outlook, would you expect an increase or decrease in the use of the 3. Skill importance following skills?”. Net growth is calculated based on the respondent-reported role proportion in the This shows the share of surveyed companies for organization now and in 2027. which the particular skill is a core skill for key roles with a stable outlook, based on responses to the Period: 2022-2023 question, “What are the core skills workers currently Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs need to perform well in the key roles with a stable Survey outlook?”. Period: 2022-2023 Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs 7. Time to skill Survey The median number of learning hours taken by learners to successfully complete credentials teaching this skill on the Coursera learning platform, 4. Skill evolution as a function of the relative skill proficiency of the credential and the learner’s self-reported level of This shows the expected increase or decrease in formal education, when it is known. use of a particular skill for the key roles that have a stable outlook in the organization. It is based on Period: 2022-2023 responses to the question, “For the key roles with Source: Coursera a stable outlook, would you expect an increase or decrease in the use of the following skills?”. The net effect is calculated by the share of respondents who select a particular skill as exhibiting increasing 8. Strategically adjacent skills or slightly increasing use, minus the share of respondents who select a particular skill as Conditional probability that a company will prioritize Future of Jobs Report 2023 259