Future of Jobs Report 2025

Skill taxonomy Skills were selected from levels 3 and 4 of the Global Skills Taxonomy to represent skills of interest to organizations across sectors and economies.TABLE A2 Skill family (level 1)Skill cluster (level 2)Skill Attitudes Ethics Environmental stewardship Global citizenship Self-efficacy Curiosity and lifelong learning Dependability and attention to detail Motivation and self-awareness Resilience, flexibility and agility Working with others Empathy and active listening Leadership and social influence Teaching and mentoring Skills, knowledge and abilities Cognitive skills Analytical thinking Creative thinking Multi-lingualism Reading, writing and mathematics Systems thinking Engagement skills Marketing and media Service orientation and customer service Management skills Quality control Resource management and operations Talent management Physical abilities Manual dexterity, endurance and precision Sensory-processing abilities Technology skills AI and big data Design and user experience Networks and cybersecurity Programming Technological literacyTo limit the potential impact of randomisation inherent in survey data, two techniques were employed: capping the maximum impact of a particular trend-job combination and removing attributions with an insufficient number of respondents. Specifically, the total impact of a single trend on a job was capped at the 99th percentile of all trend-job combinations, 1.61 million for job increase, and 1st percentile, minus 872 thousand for job loss, and attribution pairs with fewer than three votes were excluded, with their impact categorized as unexplained. Future of Jobs Report 2025 101