The skills you'll need to succeed in 2030

Agility is one of the most touted buzzwords of the modern workplace.

With so much development on the cards for all professionals over the coming years, it’s essential that workers are ensuring that soft skills, learning and development are top of their priorities lists; in fact, a report by LinkedIn touted the progression of soft skills as the number one most sought out development of the workplace in 2019.

But given how unstable the professional sector is in 2019 with the likes of automation, AI, economic instability and the threat of Brexit looming, how can professionals be expected to calculate what skills are essential and what skills will be redundant in the near future?

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It’s a justified concern; the progression of our workplace technology will inevitably define a generation of jobs that aren’t currently necessarily on offer to the workforce. Dell Technologies and the Institute of the Future recently co-authored a report that estimated 85% of all jobs in the year 2030 haven’t been invented yet – it’s worth noting that this may not be a dramatic as some have quoted.