Snapshot of Employability and Entrepreneurship
“In 2020, companies will look for talent not only based on technological competences, but also taking another kind of skills into account, such as empathy, creativity, commitment to others, communication capacity, teamwork ability and social skills”
Pilar Llácer
Lecturer and researcher at EAE Business School
To train the leaders of tomorrow, we have to understand the future. With this in mind, the Employment Report 2019 starts with an in-depth overview of the trends that will shape employability in the years to come, as well as the new technologies that will dominate entrepreneurship and the future of the global economy.
In terms of Employability, the report emphasizes the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), describing them as “a trend that, along with the digital challenge, is gathering force in the world of talent management”. These 17 goals, agreed by 150 countries in 2015, “advocate improvements to protect our planet and set out initiatives to end poverty”. Therefore, in 2020, companies will not only be looking for exclusively technological talent, but also skills related to the SDGs.
Moreover, in term of Entrepreneurship, the Employment Report 2019 analyses the 4 most important trends that will set the path for entrepreneurship over the coming years:
- New technologies: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and the Internet of Things.
- Intrapreneurship and Open: “Intrapreneurship program from company to company, but one common feature is that the standard employee is transformed into an entrepreneur”.
- Women at the helm: “Gender diversity is more efficient, richer and more secure, an so we will see it accelerating in the years to come”.
- Investment trends: “In 2018, two sectors took the lion’s share of the leading investment funds: biotech and the new wave of ICT startups. Entrepreneurial activity is the future and requires specific training”.
