Anticipating how jobs and skills evolve
In recent years, the world of work has gone through digital, environmental and energy-related shifts that have deeply transformed activities, jobs and the skills expected. These changes are unfolding in a shifting, uncertain and complex environment.
For companies, professional sectors and skills operators, the challenge is to anticipate these transformations in order to adapt skills, secure career paths and preserve employees’ employability.
Alixio Group helps organisations understand the dynamics shaping jobs and skills, measure the impact of transformations, and build suitable responses in terms of employment, mobility, recruitment and training.
Why anticipate how jobs and skills evolve?
Anticipating means spotting early on:
- the jobs and activities that are changing;
- the strategic skills to strengthen or acquire;
- the gaps between the skills available and future needs.
Anticipation gives HR teams a clearer view of the gaps to close and the actions to take. It helps to adjust skills at the right moment, before future needs turn into operational difficulties.
How do you anticipate the way jobs and skills evolve?
Identify the transformations
Analyse the technological, economic, regulatory, environmental and organisational changes likely to have an impact on the company's activity.
Measure their impact on activities and jobs
Pinpoint the activities that are growing, changing or declining, and identify the jobs concerned.
Identify the strategic skills
Determine the skills to strengthen, develop or acquire in order to meet the organisation's future needs.
Measure the gaps
Compare the skills available with the skills expected, so as to give an objective picture of the gaps and prioritise the actions to take.
Build suitable responses
Deploy the most relevant levers according to the needs: training, upskilling, reskilling, recruitment, mobility, career change or certification.
Skills as a shared reference point for steering HR challenges
Anticipate needs
Identify the skills needed today and tomorrow.
Strengthen employability
Prepare employees for changes in their job and their professional environment.
Recruit with precision
Target the skills genuinely required to make recruitment more reliable.
Steer mobility
Identify how closely jobs relate to one another and build professional bridges between them.
Assess performance
Give an objective picture of proficiency levels and provide shared assessment criteria.
Develop potential
Spot the skills to strengthen and build suitable development paths.
Certify
Recognise and secure the skills acquired.
Our services for anticipating jobs and skills
Alixio Group supports companies, professional sectors and skills operators through research, engineering and consulting assignments, helping them anticipate the jobs and skills of tomorrow and build their employment and training policies.
Sector-based or regional foresight studies
Analyse how a sector or region is evolving, measure the impact on employment, jobs and skills, and build a forward-looking view of the needs.
Workforce and skills planning
Identify jobs that are sensitive, emerging or in transition, measure the gaps between the skills available and future needs, and define the actions to put in place.
Design and engineering of HR and training tools
Build job and skills frameworks, mappings, job bridges, assessment tools and certification schemes to structure HR and training policies.
Taking skills transformation further
Anticipating jobs and skills can be aligned with broader approaches to transforming organisations.
Strategic Workforce Planning
Strategic Workforce Planning makes it possible to project future needs in headcount and skills, in line with the company’s strategic direction.
Skills-Based Organisation
The Skills-Based Organisation places skills at the heart of the organisation, to better structure roles, mobility and career paths.
Let’s talk about your jobs and skills challenges
Would you like to anticipate how your jobs are evolving, identify strategic skills or structure your employment and training policy?
Q&A – Anticipating how jobs and skills evolve
Which skills will become strategic for companies?
Strategic skills depend on the transformations specific to each sector and activity. They include, in particular, digital and AI usage, data, the environmental transition and project management, but also cross-cutting skills such as analysis, adaptability, cooperation and problem-solving.
How do you anticipate the gaps between the skills available and future needs?
By comparing, job by job, the skills available today with those that will be needed tomorrow. This analysis brings out the gaps to be addressed through training, mobility, recruitment or career change.
How do you support employees whose activities are changing?
You need to identify the tasks that are shrinking, changing or emerging, then spot the transferable skills. This work makes it possible to build bridges towards related jobs and to target upskilling needs precisely.
What impact does digitalisation have on jobs and skills?
Digitalisation changes how tasks are distributed within jobs: some are automated, others are assisted by digital tools or AI. It shifts the technical skills expected, the ways people work together and decision-making processes, and can lead to redefining certain roles or job remits.
What impact do environmental changes have on jobs?
Environmental changes alter production processes, standards, materials, energy use and supply chains. They shift the skills expected in areas such as eco-design, energy efficiency, decarbonisation, environmental reporting and resource management, and can lead to transforming certain jobs or giving rise to new ones.
