The Job Reset Summit, organized by the World Economic Forum, lists the 10 TOP Soft Skills for 2025.

The professional world is evolving rapidly and it is highly likely that within five years from now, more than 50 per cent of the required skills will change. In order to stay competitive in the market, we will therefore have to adapt our skills.

We are currently experiencing a deep market transformation driven by automation and also by the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. However, the technological revolution, if properly addressed, can be a driving force for generating new forms of employment and acquiring new skills.

“The wealth of technological innovation in our era can be harnessed to unlock human potential,” said Klaus Schuwab, President and Founder of the World Economic Forum.

Probably due to the new human-machine interaction, more than eighty million jobs could be lost by the end of 2025, but with the adaptation between humans, machines and software, almost one hundred million new jobs could be created.

What and how many soft skills will be most in demand in 2025?

According to the World Economic Forum, these are the 10 most important skills to highlight:

  1. Analytical thinking and innovation
  2. Active learning
  3. Ability to solve complex problems
  4. Critical thinking and analytical skills
  5. Creativity and initiative
  6. Leadership and social influence
  7. Use of technology, tracking and control
  8. Technology design and planning
  9. Resilience, stress management and flexibility
  10. Reasoning and design

Since the first edition of the Forum in 2016, critical thinking and problem solving have been firmly fixed among the competences. Now active learning, stress tolerance and flexibility make their appearance.

And to guide and influence innovation, leadership.

Who will be in charge of training people?

For sure, an important role will be played by companies willing to stay competitive, but decisive will also be the investment in training by the governments of the various countries around the world, thus assuming public and private funding.

The continuous learning process, with the individual at the centre, is the trump card of progress.

History teaches that progress is always the result of the individual’s creativity, which finds its best humus in government regimes capable of guaranteeing personal freedoms.

“Never stop learning”, Warren Buffett