Join the upcoming StrategEast.Live panel discussion “The future of talent: new tools and policies to address skills” on April 21 10:00 a.m. CET. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Gregory Asmolov, King’s College London. The event will be broadcasted live to StrategEast Facebook page.
According to the recent “Future of Jobs” report the global labor market experience “double disruption” due to the Covid-19 pandemic and continuous technological acceleration. More and more jobs are either becoming redundant due to quarantine-related limitations or getting replaced by automation. In that context, the World Economic Forum declared a “reskilling emergency” while “40% of current worker’s core skills are expected to change in the next 5 years” and “50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025”. That said, experts argue that there is a short window of opportunity for “a renaissance on skills” that can support the development of a new digital economy and digitalization. In that light reskilling revolution means that “as the skills gap grows, developing innovative solutions calls for holistic thinking and collective action.”
The traditional instruments of professional representation like CV and recruiting practices have a limited capacity to address the challenges related to the future of work. Addressing skills emergencies requires also shifting the discussion from trying to predict what kind of skills will be demanded in 5-10 years, to building tools and practices that allow to manage human resources and attract the best talent in a situation of increasing volatility and continuous uncertainty. The new tools and practices should support real-time monitoring of trends related to demands of job markets, enhance the inclusive search for the best talents relying on an analysis of a broad range of sources and digital traits, and bridge the gap between employment and education. At the same time, it’s important to avoid reskilling policies that force people into a new career track, while ignoring their existing skills and talents.
The purpose of the event is to identify the best tools and practices that allow harnessing the opportunities related to “a renaissance on skills” and support transformation towards a new future of work and talent.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Gregory Asmolov, King’s College London.
The panel speakers:
- Tatiana Alexeev, Digital Education Consultant at ATIC companies Moldova;
- Dina Bayasanova, CEO of Pitchme.co;
- Altynbek Ismailov, Ex-Chairman of the State Committee of Information Technology and Communications of Kyrgyz Republic (2020-2021);
- Soren Nellemann, Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Education Global Practice;
- Mariam Sumbadze, Managing Director at Georgian ICT Cluster.
StrategEast.Live is a series of online panel discussions launched by StrategEast in 2020 to continue the conversation on how technology can lead to an overall transformation in Eurasia. During these events, the esteemed guests put forward ideas that facilitate the further development of a knowledge-driven economy in the region.
