The future of work | From AI to inclusive hiring, is this the death of hard skills?

In recent years, the workplace landscape has experienced a shift, and hard skills are becoming less important, while the long-standing narrative on what ‘success’ means is changing.

Gone are the days where the only route to being ‘successful’ was going to university and obtaining knowledge and hard skills in a chosen field.

Now, because of advancements in technology, the use of social media, and the introduction of a wide range of new job roles, this narrative is quickly changing. Studies show that less people are going into higher education, with a third of young people saying they feel university is a waste of time.

On top of this, artificial intelligence is quickly replacing the need for workers to carry out mundane tasks, which are often associated with hard skills, allowing space for focus on creativity and communication, widely defined as soft skills.