From the course: The Future of Work: The Necessary Skills of Your Future Workforce

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Highlight reskilling and upskilling

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From the course: The Future of Work: The Necessary Skills of Your Future Workforce

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- How many new apps have you started using over recent years to run your life or do your job? What about your target customers? What social media platforms, software, or payment systems were they using in 2017 versus now? How do you intersect and connect with them? We are all adapting to new platforms and learning new skills at work at a faster pace. The half-life of skills, the time it takes for a skill to become half as valuable, has decreased from 10 to five years. For technical skills, it could be half that. Digitized operations, continuing technological advances, and changing behaviors compel us all to adjust to lifelong learning, which means understanding, planning, and staying on top of our skills as business requirements evolve. This can mean pivoting and re-skilling to work in a new area that has emerged, or applying existing skills in different ways or fields, or simply adding to our skills. But the truth…

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