Firms teach soft skills ahead of tech-based future

While digital technology might be making the future of some jobs more unpredictable, experts said in the future employers will still value certain skills: the ability to learn and to interact with people.

"Technological change makes it harder to anticipate which job-specific skills will thrive and which will become obsolete in the near future," said the World Development Report 2019 published by the World Bank Group.

"In the past, shifts in skill requirements prompted by technological progress took centuries to manifest themselves. In the digital era, advances in technology call for new skills seemingly overnight," it said.