PwC is collaborating with the World Economic Forum to help drive the move towards skills-first labour markets around the world.
The move could unlock the labour market for 100 million people globally, delivering benefits not only to businesses and individuals but to wider society and the economy as well.
Our joint report, Putting Skills First: A Framework for Action, presents a coherent skills-first framework for CEOs and governments, and demonstrates how some organisations are already benefiting from a skills-first culture.
The approach sees people hired on their skills and competencies, rather than qualifications. Turning the traditional recruitment process on its head in this way could help address the growing skills challenge, and drive the green and digital transitions.
“A skills-first approach can deliver sustainable economic, business and societal outcomes. Accessing alternative talent pools to address today's skills and labor shortages enables business model reinvention, fuels profitable growth, job creation and more inclusive employment opportunities.”
Skills-First: A Framework for Action
This report proposes an initial framework of 2 enablers and 5 action areas, complemented by illustrative examples and case studies, for interested businesses and governments to begin leveraging a skills-first approach.
Tackling the global skills challenge
PwC is a founding member of the World Economic Forum’s Reskilling Revolution which seeks to empower one billion people with better education, skills, and economic opportunity by 2030.
Contact us
Andrea Plasschaert
Director, Global Corporate Affairs and Communications, PwC Switzerland
Tel: +41 79 599 9567
