FUTURE PROOF - YOUR CAREER

"Soft skills" are more crucial to your career than you may think. We look at some of the most important professional skills you can attain to safeguard your working future...

- EDWAIN STEENKAMP

Ever worry about your career and the future? With ChatGPT, big data, cloud computing and advanced VR floating around, it's understandable that most of us would feel just a little bit worried.

Almost every job and industry will be disrupted and transformed in the years to come. So, what do we do? Before any panic sets in, let's take a look at the facts. Experts at the World Economic Forum (WEF) have predicted that within the next seven years: 85 million jobs will be displaced as a result of technology; 50% of the world's workforce will need to be reskilled; as many as 133 million new jobs will emerge and one billion jobs will be transformed by technology.

In the decades to come, these numbers will climb higher and the changes even more rapid. But the same experts agree that with this massive disruption will come an unprecedented need for new skills. Most of them will be known as 'soft' skills. And, finally, here's some good news: these are skills you can build and acquire.

WHAT ARE THE SKILLS OF THE FUTURE?