COVER STORY
The Most Needed
Skills & Trends
for Employers &
Employees in 2019
more important role in value creation; skills
such as social intelligence and new media
literacy, among others, will become increasingly
important for workers.
Sunanda Rao
Business Editor
people and management
I
n the good old days finding jobs was
easier, but today we need the culturally fi t
manpower. For each job we get plenty of
applicants yet fi nding a right fi t is a point of
concern for each talent acquisition team.
In the year 2010 to 2016, India had one of the
highest rates of job creation in the organized
workspace. According to a Manpower Group
survey, 2017 and 2018 have had the lowest
employer hiring optimism and 2019 will continue
in that vein.
In the near future, smart machines and
systems will automate many jobs that exist
today, changing the nature of skills that are
in high demand. As social technologies play a
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The following are the topmost skills & trends
that will affect an organization, which will form
a part of succession planning, retaining the
HIPO’s build, a career and its path:
Creativity: while robots are great at
optimizing old ideas, organizations need creative
employees who can conceive the solutions of
tomorrow the most.
Persuasion: having a great product, a great
platform or a great concept is one thing, but the
key is persuading people to buy into it.
Collaboration: as projects grow increasingly
more complex and global in the age of artifi cial
Intelligence (AI), effective collaboration only
grows more important.
Adaptability: an adaptable mind is an
essential tool for navigating today’s ever-