The AI Skills Opportunity Map: Preparing the Next Generation Workforce
Abstract
This report presents a multi-level analysis of AI’s impact across 11 job families, identifying the shifts in task performance and the evolution of skills. The findings culminate in the AI Skills Opportunity Map, a framework that highlights where AI creates new professional potential and details the emerging capabilities, including key AI skills, needed for the future workforce.
The study utilises the following approach: a Task Analysis that evaluates the AI Applicability of tasks based on a Task Suitability and AI Capability, and a Skills Analysis that assesses the evolution of core professional skills and the degree of AI embeddedness across roles.
The findings also encompass key insights derived from a number of interviews with industry experts across 11 job families on how AI is adopted in their workplace, what skills are becoming increasingly critical and their opinion on what higher education needs to focus to prepare graduates for the labour market.
The study utilises the following approach: a Task Analysis that evaluates the AI Applicability of tasks based on a Task Suitability and AI Capability, and a Skills Analysis that assesses the evolution of core professional skills and the degree of AI embeddedness across roles.
The findings also encompass key insights derived from a number of interviews with industry experts across 11 job families on how AI is adopted in their workplace, what skills are becoming increasingly critical and their opinion on what higher education needs to focus to prepare graduates for the labour market.
