Seven emerging professional clusters will gain prominence in the global labour market in 2020 and will represent 506 job opportunities out of every 1,000 in the overall market, a new report showed.

Further, by 2022, the contribution of these professional clusters in the job opportunities offered in the overall labour market will rise to 611 out of every 1,000, the report added.

These professional clusters include Care Economy, Data and AI, Engineering and Cloud Computing, Green Economy, People and Culture, Product Development and Sales, Marketing and Content, said the report published by the World Economic Forum.

These emerging professions of the future will account for 6.1 million opportunities globally in 2020–2022, the report said. If the current growth trends hold, these emerging professions will provide 1.7 million new jobs in 2020 while the figure will see a significant increase of 51 percent to 2.4 million opportunities by 2022, it added.

According to the report, growth in these clusters and jobs is highest among care roles and smallest among green professions.

37 percent of projected job opportunities in emerging professions will be in the Care Economy, followed by 17 percent in Sales, Marketing and Content, 16 percent in Data and AI, 12 percent in Engineering and Cloud Computing, and 8 percent in People and Culture. Green professions will have 1.9 percent share in the jobs projected over the period.

The highest-growth jobs span over all seven profession clusters.

The roles with the highest rate of growth within high-volume jobs include Artificial Intelligence Specialists, Medical Transcriptionists, Data Scientists, Customer Success Specialists and Full Stack Engineers. Within lower-volume jobs, the highest growth is in Landfill Biogas Generation System Technicians, Social Media Assistants, Wind Turbine Service Technicians, Green Marketers and Growth Hackers, said the WEF report, which was published as a contribution to a project, insight area or interaction.

The highest-demand skills required in these emerging professional clusters span both technical and cross-functional skills.

Here are the top 10 skills required in each cluster of jobs:

Care Economy

Respiratory Therapy

Caregiving

Sterile Procedures / Techniques

Transcription

Radiation Treatment

Medical Dosimetry

Vital Signs Measurement

Simulation

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Radiologic Technology

Data and AI

Data Science

Data Storage Technologies

Development Tools

Artificial Intelligence

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Management Consulting

Web Development

Digital Literacy

Scientific Computing

Computer Networking

Engineering and Cloud Computing

Development Tools

Web Development

Data Storage Technologies

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Computer Networking

Human-Computer Interaction

Technical Support

Digital Literacy

Business Management

Employee Learning & Development

Green Economy

Digital Marketing

Wind Turbines

Landfill Gas Collection

Social Media

Equipment Inventory

Solar Installation

Health and Safety Standards

Microsoft Power BI

Electrical Diagrams / Schematics

Email Marketing

People and Culture

Recruiting

Human Resources

Business Management

Employee Learning & Development

Leadership

Digital Literacy

Project Management

People Management

Compensation & Benefits

Foreign Languages

Product Development

Software Testing

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Development Tools

Project Management

Business Management

Data Storage Technologies

Web Development

Manufacturing Operations

Digital Literacy

Leadership

Sales, Marketing and Content

Digital Marketing

Social Media

Business Management

Digital Literacy

Advertising

Product Marketing

Video

Graphic Design

Leadership

Writing

First Published:Jan 30, 2020 12:33 PM IST