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"Overall, the effect of skills on earnings (what economists call "returns-to-skills") is unsurprising. The authors focus on numeracy and show that people with more skills earn more. A one-standard-deviation increase in numeracy skills is associated with an 18% wage increase among "prime-age" workers (workers between 25 and 54)."

"So what does that mean for workers over the years and decades ahead? Mr. Autor says that this weakness leaves plenty of opportunities for humans to serve as intermediaries of sorts between increasingly intelligent computers that nonetheless lack that common sense. He invokes the idea of "Polanyi's Paradox," named for the Hungarian thinker Michael Polanyi, who observed that "we know more than we can tell," meaning humans can do immensely complicated things like drive a car or tell one species of bird from another without fully understanding the technical details. "Following Polanyi's observation," Mr. Autor writes, "the tasks that have proved most vexing to automate are those demanding flexibility, judgment, and common sense - skills that we understand only tacitly.""

"Le terme « Mad skills » qui peut être traduit par « compétences folles » se définit par une expertise multidimensionnelle, ou des compétences singulières ou hors du commun. L'ouverture d'esprit , une attitude positive, collective et collaborative définissent le terme « Mental Outlook ». "

Higher level vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. What type of training is needed to meet the needs of changing economies? How should the programmes be funded? How should they be linked to academic and university programmes? How can employers and unions be engaged? This report synthesises the findings of the series of  country reports done on skills beyond school.   Chapter 1. The hidden world of professional education and training Chapter 2. Enhancing the profile of professional education and training Chapter 3. Three key elements of high-quality post-secondary programmes Chapter 4. Transparency in learning outcomes Chapter 5. Clearer pathways for learners Chapter 6. Key characteristics of effective vocational systems

It's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements gained outside of school. Mozilla's Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy to issue, earn and display badges across the web. The result: recognizing 21st century skills, unlocking career and educational opportunities, and helping learners everywhere level up in their life and work.

"INNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers were swept aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were."

"More people are freelancing than ever before--by some estimates, around 42 million Americans. But entrepreneur Ryan Hooks thinks that eventually almost everyone will be able to leave their office jobs, and he's built a new website called Avbl to help. "Essentially it's kind of like the Airbnb model for skillsearch," Hooks explains. "Whatever city you're in, wherever you are in the world, you can search for a skill--like editor, designer, illustrator, or seamstress--and the results come up based on proximity and date." If someone needs a video editor today, or a web designer next month, they can search and book the right person."

"Are lacklustre wages an inevitable consequence of globalisation and technological change? Or has policy had a role to play? Technology, according to new research presented at the annual conference of the UK's Royal Economic Society, is not in itself the problem. Instead, a mix of globalisation and the decline of worker bargaining power have been responsible for employees' woes. And, the paper suggests, bolstering trade unions would be a better way to shore up workers in the future than skills training."

Robots are getting more powerful. That need not be bad news for workers

Un billet très intéressant où l'auteur identifie trois différentes nature de compétences : - Les "hard skills" : compétences tangibles qui peuvent être enseignées (diplômes, formation, etc.) - Les "soft skills" : compétences liées à l'intelligence émotionnelle. On s'intéresse aux caractères des individus, leur capacité à communiquer, à développer des relations, etc. - L'influence professionnelle en ligne : le réseau que possède un individus. Cela peut être représenté, par exemple, en terme de diffusion, de communication, par les personnes et le nombre de personnes qu'un individu peut atteindre en émettant un message.

"Facilitant le processus RH et révélant les personnalités ainsi que les motivations, l'outil s'appuie sur les données comportementales permettant de faire correspondre les envies des hommes aux besoins des entreprises. Après 128 questions, les utilisateurs peuvent alors découvrir leurs profils et déterminer les différentes opportunités qui peuvent les intéresser. Un questionnaire réalisable en moins de 12 minutes, notamment facilité par le choix des réponses, qui reposent uniquement sur les "soft skills". Les expériences professionnelles et les diplômes ne sont pas des critères inclus dans la réalisation de ce test."

Two papers came out last year that examined important issues around jobs and wages. Both are in top journals. Both were written by first-rate researchers, none of whom specialize in studying the impact of technology. And both came to the same conclusion: that digital technologies were largely responsible for the phenomena they examined. Paper 1 Equally admirable are the graphs the authors draw to illustrate their main findings. Here's the one for jobs (the one for wages has a pretty similar shape). It gives the changes in employment share - which you can think of as changes in the the 'market share' of jobs - between 1980 and 2005. And it shows vividly that low-skill and high-skill jobs gained market share over that period, which those in the middle of the skill range lost. Paper 2 We document, however, that the global labor share has significantly declined since the early 1980s, with the decline occurring within the large majority of countries and industries. We show that the decrease in the relative price of investment goods, often attributed to advances in information technology and the computer age, induced firms to shift away from labor and toward capital.

"Fears that automation and machine learning will cause massive job losses and make people obsolete are starting to wane (well, unless you ask Stephen Hawking). Instead, there's a more optimistic prediction taking hold: that the new technology could actually lead to job gains. But the transition won't be easy."

Deux tiers des écoliers de maternelle occuperont des emplois qui n'existent pas encore aujourd'hui. S'orienter vers la bonne formation et savoir quel métier on va exercer : pari impossible ? L'économie se transforme si vite que les exercices d'anticipation s'apparentent souvent à de la divination, comment se préparer au travail de demain ? Infographie

"T.A.R.A. began life as an AI recruiter, built for Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Automation, by veteran recruiters and machine learning engineers. Tara has the ability to analyze 100+ data points on each candidate and recruit the most effective engineers for specific positions or coding tasks, by quantifying their skills. Tara's functionality has expanded, with the ability to assemble full-stack product teams, on-demand."

Les 10 compétences qui seront essentielles à tous les travailleurs en 2020 selon l'université de Phoenix : Transdisclinarité Collaboration virtuelle Sense-making Intelligence sociale Competence cross-culturelle Cognitive load management Novel and adaptive thinking Computational thinking New media literacy Design mindset

"DOING GOOD CAN BE GOOD FOR YOUR COMPANY. VOLUNTEERING BUILDS SOFT SKILLS IN YOUR TEAM, WHILE THEY HELP BUILD COMMUNITY AROUND THEM. Debbie Feit had always wanted to give back, but with two children and a career, finding time was a problem. Then her employer offered a solution: to celebrate its 40th anniversary, employees were given an opportunity to take a month-long sabbatical at the charitable organization of their choice. She jumped at the chance."

"Jusqu'à maintenant, les entreprises cherchaient des moutons à 5 pattes. Dans un avenir proche, le salarié idéal ressemblera plutôt à un caméléon. C'est ce que prédit une étude du cabinet EY et de LinkedIn sur la révolution des métiers qui est déjà en marche." - Les soft skills comptent de plus en plus - Les entreprises cherchent des recrues adaptables - Emergence de nouveaux métiers - Une révolution du travail dans le temps et l'espace