“Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million workers across 22 industry clusters and 55 economies from around the world—to examine how these macrotrends impact jobs and skills, and the workforce transformation strategies employers plan to embark on in response, across the 2025 to 2030 timeframe.”

The Source: The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international organization “for Public-Private cooperation. It provides a global, impartial and not-for-profit platform for meanintful connection between stakeholders…”  Its mission: “We bring together government, businesses and civil society to improve the state of the world.”

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Quick Focus: The summary on the first few pages.

Connection to Volo: Volo’s intention is to train future skills including those important for professional security and choice; our learning model fosters the development of sought-after core skills. For example, consider this from p. 6.

“Analytical thinking remains the most sought after core skill among employers, with seven out of 10 companies considering it as essential in 2025. This is followed by resilience, flexibility and agility, along with leadership and social influence. “

Keep in mind that Volo has a long view and recognizes and respects the important developmental progression through childhood; this means that we do not push professional rigor on young people who need to play and learn happily.  Adult professional skills are supported by childhood and young adult experiences. At the same time, Volo fosters well-being in childhood and young adult-hood, which contributes to humanity and compassion, both of which are important for adult fulfilment and well-being in more dimensions than simply professional. It is interesting that the report predicts that “supporting health and well-being is expected to be a top focus for talent attraction.” Whether that focus is compassionate or mercenary or some combination, it suggests that the adult workforce will value more than professional achievement.