How to Adapt to a Sustainable Labor Market Pace

The World Economic Forum just revealed the top skills for 2030 in their Future of Jobs Report. Spoiler: the ones rising fastest are the ones we’ve been ignoring 👀 Here’s what the data from 1,000 top employers (representing 14M workers across 22 industries) tells us: 📍 Analytical thinking is the #1 skill employers value most. 📍 Career growth is shifting from credentials to capabilities. Employers care less about degrees and more about how you think, adapt, and solve real problems. 📍 Soft skills are rising faster than technical ones, including programming and design. If you want to stay relevant by 2030, these are the skills to master: 1) Analytical Thinking → Choose one business decision this week and list 3 things you're assuming to be true. Then challenge each with data before moving forward. 2) Creative Thinking → Take a current work challenge and ask, “How would a completely different team solve this?” 3) AI & Big Data Literacy → Pick one business workflow and explore how AI could reduce time, cost, or complexity. Then test it in a low-risk area. 4) Resilience & Flexibility → Write down the last thing that frustrated you. How could you respond differently next time? 5) Motivation & Self-Awareness → Track your energy for 3 days. Note when you're most focused vs. drained. Move one key task to match your peak zone. 6) Curiosity & Lifelong Learning → Set a 30-minute calendar block to explore a trend that will affect your industry but isn’t on your roadmap yet. 7) Technological Literacy → Pick one tool your team uses and explore a feature you’ve never touched. 8) Empathy & Listening → In your next 1:1, ask: “What’s something you’ve been holding back from saying?” Then listen without interrupting. 9) Leadership & Influence → In your next team meeting or Slack update, highlight a quiet win from someone who usually flies under the radar. 10) Systems Thinking → Pick one process that causes repeated friction. Map it end-to-end, and eliminate the one step that slows everything down. WEF’s data is clear: The skills rising fastest aren’t technical, they’re human. AI is already mastering the hard skills. But it still can’t lead a team, rethink a broken process, or earn trust in a room. 🤝 By 2030, those who master soft skills with strategy won’t just survive the shift, they’ll lead it 

In 2025, the most in-demand jobs didn’t exist in 2015. So the question is—how are you future-proofing your career? Meet Sarah. She was a traditional marketing manager in 2015—crushing email campaigns, analyzing performance in a number of BI tools, and debating font choices and images for hours. Fast forward to today? Sarah now leads an AI-Powered Growth Pod! She doesn’t just track open rates—she's involved in training generative models to predict campaign performance, automate A/B tests, and optimize conversion flows before the campaign even goes live. She didn’t have a background in AI, or in tech for that matter. BUT she had a mindset for adaptability. Her secret? 🧠 She identified the trend and leaned in! 💡 She learned adjacent AI skills (prompting, automation workflows, zero-shot learning). 🤝 She networked with engineers and product managers, getting over her fear of 'imposter syndrome' 📚 She took one micro-course a month. Now? Recruiters are chasing her for roles that didn’t even exist 5 years ago. 📈 Quick stat: 85% of jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet. (Source: Dell Technologies & Institute for the Future) 😂 Scary but true: One executive told me, “I’m future-proofing by buying ChatGPT licenses for my team.” That’s like prepping for the electric car revolution… by handing out jumper cables. Here’s what I’d recommend to future proof yourself: - Pick 1 AI-adjacent skill that complements your current role. Learn it. Practice it. Talk about it. - Join one cross-functional project involving tech—be the glue between business and data. - Make curiosity your superpower. It’s not about mastering AI, it’s about integrating it into your workflow. Because AI won’t take your job...but the person who understands how to use it effectively, will. What’s one skill you’re learning this year to future-proof your career? Drop it below—we’re all building our 2025 toolkit. ⬇️ #CareerAdvice #AI #SkillDevelopment #FutureOfWork #ProfessionalGrowth #ReinventYourself

The job you'll have in 2030 probably doesn't have a name yet. Here's how to get ready. Microsoft recently announced it's reducing its workforce by more than 6,000 employees to free up resources for AI investment. It's a pattern we're seeing across tech—companies reshaping their workforce for different priorities. If you're worried about AI and your career, I get it. The world is changing fast, and it can feel overwhelming. But here's what I'm seeing from our data at Lensa: the companies thriving right now aren't replacing humans with AI. They're looking for people who can work with both. Three ways you can start preparing today: 🎯 Pick one repetitive task in your job. Learn how AI could handle it, then figure out what higher-level work that frees you up for. 🤖 Choose one AI tool relevant to your field. Spend 30 minutes daily for a week learning it. LinkedIn Learning has free courses. 🧠 Identify one complex problem at work that requires human judgment. Document how you solve it—that's your unique value. Jobs like AI trainers, algorithmic auditors, and human-machine collaboration specialists barely existed two years ago. Now companies can't fill them fast enough. Your career doesn't have to be at the mercy of these changes. You can shape how this plays out. Pro tip: Lensa can help with this. What's one skill you're building that didn't exist in your job description five years ago? #FutureOfWork #JobSearch #CareerDevelopment #AI