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Skills in Demand: Uncovering the common skills for high paying,

high growth jobs of the near future

Common Arguments: Why did we do

this?

• Does college matter? For everyone, or

exceptions?

• Purpose of school

• What should the taught?

Our research bias:

• Strive to help everyone realize their

potential, and provide an equal

opportunity to succeed.

• Goal: Inform a dialog about elements

of responsible curriculum

Ground those decision in real-world

opportunities: What jobs will be “in

demand” when current students are

ready to work?


Why are we

here?

Agenda


Changing Employment Landscape

Tomorrow’s Best Jobs

Skill Requirements for Today/

Tomorrow

• Top Skills: High Growth/

High Pay positions (HGHP)

• Top Skills: All positions

Cross Functional Skills and Communication,

Integration and Presentation Skills (CIPS)

Conclusions


“Anchor standards in the real world”*

Megatrends will drive employer needs: • Increasingly diverse customer base.

• Employee's relationship with employer.

• Increased complexity of business structures and organizations.

• Expanding mobile customers and increased electronic communication.

• Increasing economic importance of digital commerce and digital content.

• IT in the workplace


* Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma That Counts, www.achieve.org/ReadyorNot

Megatrends

will drive

employer

needs:

Increasingly diverse

customer base



Megatrends

will drive

employer

needs:

Employee's

relationship with

employer.


Megatrends

will drive

employer

needs:

Increased

complexity of

business structures

and organizations


Megatrends

will drive

employer

needs:

Expanding mobile

customers and

increased

electronic

communication


Megatrends

will drive

employer

needs:

Increasing

economic

importance of

digital commerce

and digital content.


Megatrends

will drive

employer

needs:

IT in the workplace

Agenda





Tomorrow






Conclusions

Tomorrow’s Best Jobs – HGHP

What are the HGHP positions?

• BLS Data, 748 standard occupation classifications

• Criteria:

Size: >100k positions

Growth: either grow by 100k positions through 2020

or >15% from 2010-2020

Wage: Above the median wage in the U.S. in 2013

19 categories and 60 occupations




Source: IDC, based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Data, October 2013

HGHP

Occupations

All

Occupations

# of Occupations (by SOC code) 60 748

2010 Employment (000) 27,944 141,867

Job openings 2010-2020 (000) 54,552 11,498

Growth in employment, 2010-2020 (000) 5,677 20,565

Growth in employment, 2010-2020, % 22.4 14.5

Average wage $69,179 $45,929

Tomorrow’s Best Jobs – HGHP


Medical Support and Nursing

14%

Sales and Marketing Professionals

10%

Education, Teaching and Instruction

10%

Computer Programmers and

Specialists 10%

Office Managers, business operations

9%

Postsecondary Teachers

6%

Trades: Supervisory

6%

Other 35%

Total = 33.6 M

Agenda





Tomorrow






Conclusions

Skill Requirements for Today/Tomorrow:

Skills Distribution: HGHP positions


Source: IDC, based on WANTED Analytics and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, October 2013

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Required Skills

Occupation-specific skills:

1,065 skills

Cross-functional skills:

37 skills 46.6% of skills requirements

Cross-functional Occupation-specific # of occupations citing skill


Top Skills: HGHP Positions Most required “cross

functional” skills are:

• oral and written

communication skills,

• attention to detail,

• customer service

focus,

• organizational skills,

and problem-solving

skills

Only technical skills

are MS Office and its

components



0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14%

Team-oriented, teamwork

Business development

Data entry

Work ethics

Dependability

Sales experience

Time management

Microsoft Word

Project Management

Microsoft PowerPoint

Work independently

Self-starting / Self-motivated

Bilingual/multilingual

Sales and operations planning

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Customer service oriented

Microsoft Office

Detail oriented

Oral and written communication skills


Top Skills: All Positions



0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16%

Linux

Work ethics

Strong interpersonal skills*

Bilingual/multilingual*

Microsoft Word*

Analytical skills*

Business development

Time management

Customer service oriented

Troubleshooting

Sales experience

Project management*

Microsoft PowerPoint*

Work independently

Organizational skills*

Self-starting / Self-motivated

Problem solving*

Detail oriented*

Microsoft Office*

Oral and written communication skills*

% of All Positions

% of Target Occupation Positions

Fairly close alignment

between skills for

HGHP positions and

all 740 occupations

• Customer service &

Bilingualism slightly

lower

• Office ranks slightly

higher, word slightly

lower

• And “Linux” appears

on list as the next most

frequent technology

competence

Agenda





Tomorrow






Conclusions

Cross Functional Skills and CIPS:

Cross Functional Skills Cross Functional Skills:

• Were about 40 skills that appeared in the highest

percentage of positions and specific postings.

• Examining those, we discovered

a subset of about 17 skills

that appeared to be closely

aligned with school

curricula – we called those CIPS

CIPS: “The skills formally

known as Business Skills”



CIPS


Broadly defined as: the competencies (skills/behaviors/

attitudes) to seek, evaluate, and examine information and data;

create a reasoned position; present findings; and make a case for or

advocate for that position

Three categories:

• Communication: Listen, read, write to uncover agreement and

misunderstanding, seek information, evaluate sources to identify

discrepancies, motivation and bias

• Integration: weigh relevance, interpret, extrapolate, interpolate,

analyze, evaluate and decide based on principles and information

• Presentation: Develop and present a reasoned and persuasive

position, articulate strengths and weaknesses and incorporate

feedback to improve both logic and persuasiveness.


CIPS


CIP Skills

1 Oral and written communication skills 19 Data entry

2 Microsoft Office 20 Financial analysis

3 Detail oriented 21 Financial planning

4 Problem solving 22 Financial management

5 Organizational skills 23 Administrative skills

6 Microsoft PowerPoint 24 Business analysis

7 Project management 25 Highly organized

8 Analytical skills 26 Microsoft Project

9 Microsoft Word 27 Variance analysis

10 Bilingual/multilingual 28 Financial modeling

11 Strong interpersonal skills 29 Keyboarding

12 Microsoft Excel 30 Business analytics

13 Team oriented, teamwork 31 Technical writing

14 Quality assurance 32 Business case development

15 Word processing 33 Spreadsheet software

16 Data analysis 34 Quantitative analysis/modeling

17 Critical thinking 35 Budget management

18 Financial reporting 36 Statistical software


CIPS – Widely relevant

IDC found that CIP-related skills are required for

about

• 40% of all job postings

• 39% of the fastest-growing, highest-paying positions

• 70% of the positions that require at least one of the

top 20 skills.

CIP skills make up 11 of the top 20 skills

required



MS Office, and Other Software Skills

Technology enablers of critical communication, integration and

presentation skills are also considered “CIPS”.

MS Office is a required competence almost twice as often as non-

Microsoft software


7%

11%

20%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%

Other Microsoft software (not Office)

Non-Microsoft software

Microsoft Office

Agenda





Tomorrow






Conclusions

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Conclusion

To compete: most enterprises will require a similarly diverse employee population

To adjust to the changing relationships: employees will need to be increasingly self-motivated, self-directed

To function complex business structures: employees must be comfortable with ambiguity, take initiative, and work in team

To address mobile customers: employers will select employees with strong customer service ethic

To benefit from digital: Employees will need respond to market conditions

To use IT in the workplace: Employees will need to think beyond the specific job to the implications of an action, inaction, or failure


Essential Guidance

“Anchor Standards in the Real World”

Educators:

• Consider core skills – CIPs

• Avoid technology-for-technology’s sake

• However: Leverage technology that are commonly deployed and support CIPs

• More work should be done:

Confirm: Replicate findings with similar or alternative approaches

Monitor: Test hypothesis, Track applicability

Revise: Curricula, hypothesis, jobs growth, wage info, required competencies


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