A 2020 demi-decade global job skills analysis in emerging ai- and digital-related careers

Abstract

Nowadays, the Technology-driven era, the impacts of rapid technology development affect the needs of businesses. New business model challenges would not only change current careers and current roles but create new types of careers. This situation creates a gap between supply and demand regarding market needs and the number of experts in technological knowledge. The purpose of this study was to analyze emerging job trends and skills needed in the past demi-decade (from 2015 to 2020) using a descriptive analysis method and data visualization. Data were collected from LinkedIn's job postings to get market needs directly and emerging careers, both national and international. It was found that (1) there are many similarities of skills between those emerging careers. This will be an opportunity for employees to change positions, or the benefit of consolidating positions to reduce the organization's cost; (2) while a machine can perform a given task more efficiently than humans can, it lacks the artistry and feeling in activities. That is a unique human ability and human common sense to serve the needs of the individual. Therefore, the replacing human labor with machines may be possible only partially; (3) In the future, there will be a huge demand for information-related careers and cognitive skills to develop organization quality. Based on the major findings, the research is conducted as a documented guideline for developing the skills and abilities to people in the country, to raise education quality and business’s human resource development, to be equal to global. Implication of the Thematic Paper: The thematic paper can help the educational institutes to improve educational outcome for defining and producing the study curriculum, to be up-to-date, and meet the needs of business. According to the National Education Plan (Year 2017-2036) that aims to manage education effectively and develop manpower’s abilities. Moreover, the paper can support the business sector for human resource management and planning, which is the important of workforce development, to improve skills and abilities of employees in the organization. The research applies the beauty of Data Visualization to analyze through Descriptive Analytics model and Storytelling.