Policy & programmes

Skills Policy

OECD, WEF and national frameworks shaping training systems.

11 published dossiers

Coverage

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SKILLS DEVELOPMENTMarch 9, 2026

10 min

The OECD Skills Outlook 2025: Where the Skills Gap Opens and What It Pays

The OECD’s 2025 skills report is not a forecast of winning skills. It measures where the gap between people opens and how it reaches pay, and a candidate can still act on two of its three channels.

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SKILLS DEVELOPMENTMarch 9, 2026

9 min

How Steve Jobs Would Read the 2025 Jobs Report: A Contrarian's Guide to Career Strategy

Everyone is reading the same WEF report and reaching the same conclusions. Here is how to think different about career strategy: through the lens of Apple's legendary founder.

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SKILLS DEVELOPMENTMarch 9, 2026

7 min

The Employer's Skills Dilemma: Why 75% of Employers Cannot Find the Talent They Need

75% of employers report critical talent shortages. Yet millions of qualified candidates go unnoticed. The gap is not in skills: it is in how we define, find, and develop them.

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SKILLS DEVELOPMENTMarch 9, 2026

9 min

Build Your Skills Architecture: A Strategic Framework for Career-Long Competitive Advantage

Your career is a portfolio, not a path. Here is how to architect your skill stack like an investment fund: using the Core/Adjacent/Aspirational framework.

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SKILLS DEVELOPMENTMarch 9, 2026

8 min

Future-Proof or Fall Behind: How to Build a 5-Year Skill Development Strategy

44% of worker skills will be disrupted by 2027. Here is a complete 5-year strategy template: from quarterly audits to the updated 70-20-10 model for the AI age.

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JOB SIMULATIONSMarch 7, 2026

10 min

The Ultimate Guide to Job Simulations: How Virtual Experiences Transform Careers

Discover how companies like McKinsey, Google, and Goldman Sachs use job simulations to identify talent, and how you can leverage them to explore careers, build skills, and land your dream role.

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TALENT PERSPECTIVESMarch 2, 2026

10 min

Gen Z Job Seekers: What We Actually Want From Employers in 2025

Purpose, flexibility, growth, but not in the way you think. Recent graduates share unfiltered priorities that challenge employer assumptions.

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HIRING TRENDSFebruary 28, 2026

11 min

Why Google Hires for Potential, Not Pedigree

Google's shift toward skills-based assessments opens doors for non-traditional candidates. Here's how to position yourself.

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JOB SIMULATIONSFebruary 28, 2025

10 min

Why Job Simulations Are Replacing Resumes: The Data Behind Experiential Hiring

The research has ranked work samples above résumé-style signals for decades. A 2022 correction kept that ranking and shrank every advantage, so a job simulation counts only when it is scored against the real task.

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INDUSTRY TRENDSFebruary 5, 2025

6 min

The US$8.5 Trillion Global Talent Shortage: Why Skills-Based Hiring Is No Longer Optional

Korn Ferry projects 85 million unfilled jobs by 2030: equivalent to the GDP of Germany and Japan combined. Skills-based hiring isn't a trend; it's an economic imperative.

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INDUSTRY TRENDSFebruary 2, 2025

9 min

AI and the Future of Work: Which Roles Are Growing, Shrinking, and Transforming

The WEF projects 69 million new jobs created and 83 million displaced by 2027. A data-driven analysis of who wins, who loses, and what you can do about it.