By the Numbers Technology Define That People Tough Stuff
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What is 50%?
Globally, this percentage of people are employed in a wage job.
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What is automation?
A technological innovation that threatens around 47% of U.S. employment
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What are soft skills?
Personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.
100
What is lifelong learning?
An ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge that promotes professional adaptability.
100
What is Building a Foundation, Ready for the Global Workforce, Livelihoods through Self-Employment, and Global Context Matters?
The names of the Four Tracks at the GYEO Summit 2017.
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What is five?
Each new job in the technology sector creates this number of jobs in the local non-tradable sector.
200
What is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics?
The acronym STEM stands for this.
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What is outsourcing?
A practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to foreign suppliers rather than completing it internally.
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What is every two years or less?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics expect Millenials to change jobs this frequently.
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What is focusing on basic skills, early childhood development improving early reading, investing in relevant skills, using future earnings to finance higher education, etc.?
Name a major policy priority for governments, investors, or the development community to promote better education.
300
What is 9.8 billion?
World Population is projected to reach this number by the year 2050.
300
What is a digital search platform?
This makes it easier to learn about available jobs and requirements, reduces the cost of recruiting, and allows individuals to market themselves to a wider audience.
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What is globalization?
This term refers to the free movement of goods, capital, services, people, technology, and information as a procedure of international integration.
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What is active learning, critical thinking, decision-making, systems analysis, problem solving, programming, etc.?
These core work-related skills are essential for current and future employees.
300
What is premature deindustrialization?
The phenomenon of steadily declining manufacturing employment in emerging economies.
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What is 2/3?
This fraction of organizations say that their employees are overwhelmed according to the Deloitte 2014 Human Capital Trends Study.
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What is digital disruption?
The change that occurs when new digital technologies affect the value proposition of existing goods and services.
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What is a gig economy?
A labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs.
400
What are employment protections and social insurance systems?
These landmark economic and social achievements protect an individual from major idiosyncratic income risks such as loss of earnings due to job loss, ill health, and inadequate savings for old age.
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What is provision of finance, entrepreneurship training, business support services, wage subsidies, and transformation to the business environment, etc.?
Governments, NGOs, and donors attempt to create jobs by using interventions such as:
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What is 28%?
Although women are more educated than men globally, as of today, their chances to rise to positions of leadership are this percentage of those of men.
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What is "The Singularity"?
The point in time that machine intelligence is predicted to surpass human intelligence is known as this.
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What is the underemployment rate?
A measure of workers who are highly skilled but working in low paying jobs, high skilled but working in low skill jobs, and part-time workers who would prefer to be full time.
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What is economically disadvantaged, socially disadvantaged, or disadvantageous life circumstances (low income area, minority, gender group, disabled)?
An example of an "impact worker" that might benefit from business outsourcing would have one of these characteristics.
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What is climate change/natural resources, changing nature of work/flexible work, and new energy supplies and technologies?
According to a survey of industries done by World Economic Forum, the top trends impacting business models include:






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