Data-driven identification of skills for the future: 21st century skills for the 21st century workforce
The world is rapidly changing and systemic shifts have the potential to affect the nature of work. To prepare the workforce, it is crucial to develop the skills that will be necessary for the unpredictable landscape of the future. Before these skills can be developed, however, they have to be identified and it is important that the approach to skills valuation is empirically defensible. Our approach to skills valuation focus on the extent to which a skill facilitates occupational transitions as its measure of value, and measured using a graph-theoretic approach. Results show that this valuation reflects skills-importance that aligns with existing skills valuation in the literature. Limitations of this approach as well as its potential extensions are discussed.