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Reskilling is something that sounds like a buzzword but is actually a requirement if we plan to have a future where a lot of wou
Reskilling is something that sounds like a buzzword but is actually a requirement if we plan to have a future where a lot of wou
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2021-03-11
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Reskilling is something that sounds like a buzzword but is actually a requirement if we plan to have a future where a lot of would-be workers do not get left behind.We know we are moving into a period where the jobs in demand will change rapidly, as will the requirements of the jobs that remain.Research by the World Economic Forum finds that on average 42 percent of the "core skills" within job roles will change by 2022.That is a very short timeline, so we can only imagine what the changes will be further in the future.
The question of who should pay for reskilling is a thorny one.For individual companies, the temptation is always to let go of workers whose skills are no longer in demand and replace them with those whose skills are.That does not always happen.AT&T is often given as the gold standard of a company that decided to do a massive reskilling program rather than go with a fire-and-hire strategy, ultimately retraining 18,000 employees.Prepandemic, other companies including Amazon and Disney had also pledged to create their own plans.When the skills mismatch is in the broader economy though, the focus usually turns to government to handle.Efforts in Canada and elsewhere have been arguably languid at best, and have given us a situation where we frequently hear of employers begging for workers even at times and in regions where unemployment is high.
With the pandemic, unemployment is very high indeed.In February, at 3.5 percent and 5.5 percent respectively, unemployment rates in Canada and the United States were at generational lows and worker shortages were everywhere.As of May, those rates had spiked up to 13.3 percent and 13.7 percent, and although many worker shortages had disappeared, not all had done so.In the medical field, to take an obvious example, the pandemic meant that there were still clear shortages of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel.
Of course, it is not like you can take an unemployed waiter and train him to be a doctor in few weeks, no matter who pays for it.But even if you cannot close that gap, maybe you can close others, and doing so would be to the benefit of all concerned.That seems to be the case in Sweden: when forced to furlough 90 percent of their cabin staff, Scandinavian Airline decided to start up a short retraining program that reskilled the laid-off workers to support hospital staff.The effort was a collec¬tive one and involved other companies as well as a Swedish university.
Reskilling in this way would be challenging in a North American context.You can easily imagine a chorus of "you can’t do that" because teachers or nurses or whoever have special skills, and using any support staff who has been quickly trained is bound to end in disaster.Maybe.Or maybe it is something that can work well in Sweden, with its history of cooperation between business, labour and government, but not in North America where our history is very different.Then again, maybe it is akin to wartime, when extraordinary things take place, but it is business as usual after the fact.And yet, as in war the pandemic is teaching us that many things, including rapid reskilling, can be done if there is a will to do them.In any case, Swedens’ work force is now more skilled, in more things, and more flexible than it was before.
Of course, reskilling programs, whether for pandemic needs or the postpandemic world, are expensive and at a time when everyone’s budgets are lean, this may not be the time to implement them.Then again, extending income support programs to get us through the next months is expen¬sive, too, to say nothing of the cost of having a swath of long-term unemployed in the POST-COVID years.Given that, perhaps we should think hard about whether the pandemic can jump-start us to a place where reskilling becomes much more than a buzzword.
Research by the World Economic forum suggests_______.
选项
A、an increase in full-time employment
B、an urgent demand for new job skills
C、a steady growth of job opportunities
D、a controversy about the "core skills"
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键词Research by the World Economic Forum suggests定位到第一段第三句,“Research by the Word Economic Forum finds that on average 42 percent of the ‘core skills’within job roles will change by 2022”,世界经济论坛( World Economic Forum)的研究发现,到2022年,工作岗位中平均有42%的“核心技能”将发生变化。B项“对于新工作技能需求紧迫”与文章表述一致,故选B。A项“全职工作的增加”、C项“工作机会的增加”、D项“核心技能的争议”在原文均未提及,故均排除。
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