1. THE FUTURE OF SKILLS & JOBS
- Ashwin Swaminathan
CEO for One Month Finalist
ADECCO

2. WHY FUTURE OF SKILLS & JOBS?
 Open ended topic – brings my perspective
 Coherently connects relevant issues and other
topics
 Visionary goal aligned with Adecco values
 Responsibility of Adecco as bellwether of Industry
 80% people hate their jobs *

3. EVOLUTION & AUTOMATION – I
(TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS)
 Hunting, farming to tools
 Everyone needing to make food, to no one!
 All manual labor – mechanized (Industrial Age)
 Intelligent, self-teaching robots make white-collar jobs
obsolete (Decision making)
 Technology evolves faster than biology (Automation,
Data Science, Machine Learning and Social Networks,
Artificial Intelligence, IOT, Nanotech, Genetic and
Biotech)

4. EVOLUTION & AUTOMATION - II

5. EVOLUTION & AUTOMATION – III

6. EVOLUTION & AUTOMATION – IV

7. EVOLUTION & AUTOMATION - V
 45% of all workforce could lose Jobs!
 Skilled humans unemployed for no fault of theirs?
 Trend-setters change the system and drive trends
 Look to anticipate, drive change, evolve workforce,
facilitate passion at work and make life better

8. EVOLUTION (SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS) - I
 Demographic- Ageing Population
 Growing diversity
 Changing work environments shaped by ICT
 Growing desire for greater work-life balance
 Shift to Asia, growing economic power of countries
in East

9. EVOLUTION (SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS) - II
 Interdisciplinary skills
 Women’s empowerment economic power *
 Rapid urbanization

10. HOW TRENDS ARE MOVING
 35% of core skills will change from 2015 to 2020

11. HUMAN ELEMENT – SKILLS FOR FUTURE
 Leadership and Entrepreneurship
 Team spirit
 Empathy
 Morals, ethics, values, responsibility
 Communication
 Passion
 Importance of HR booms

19. HOW DO WE MAKE WORKFORCE READY?
 Education system built for Industrial Age
 Talent survey – 35% of 38,000 employers in US are
dissatisfied
 Coming East, every year 5 lakh out of 30 lakh
graduating students are employed!

20. HOW DO WE MAKE WORKFORCE READY?
 Change starts from elementary education system
system, upbringing, culture, attitude, beliefs and
values
 Focus shift from IQ to EQ and SQ
 Create global citizens
 Make static part solid – Pareto Analysis, with
extensive R&D on the dynamic part to drive
evolution

21. CHANGES BEING DRIVEN
 Educational Institutions – Harvard’sTalerang
 Corporates drive change – sustainability initiatives
 Adecco – CEO for One Month; Way to Work
 Creates all-round, well developed early stage
professionals – bridges gap of work readiness

22. UNDERSTANDING TO EFFECT CHANGES -
ADECCO
 Volatile global environment
 Effective regulatory framework
 Technology & Automation
 Demography
 Sociology and Diversity

23. BIBLIOGRAPHY

24. THANK YOU!
Your questions are my scope for introspection. Please
feel free to ask 