Skills and Lifelong Learning

Transformative changes such as globalization, new forms of organizing work, and advances in automation and artificial intelligence (AI) have important implications for the world of work. Against this backdrop, it becomes ever more important to build an agile workforce capable of navigating the fast-changing labour market through appropriate and timely skilling, reskilling and upskilling.

Governments need to adopt more relevant skills policies to develop the skills required by rapidly evolving labour markets. Education and training systems will also need to take advantage of new educational technologies and give greater attention to digital skills.

Enterprises and employers will need to make new investments to expand their involvement in educating, training and the reskilling of workers to support economic growth.

And, workers will need to proactively upgrade their skills or acquire new ones through training, education and lifelong learning to remain employable.

Email address: skills@ilo.org