LMonday 2 pm, Nicolas is already at the weekend: very perky, this creator of Internet sites has launched ten in one morning, and each one already includes many articles. “I discovered a magic trick, I asked ChatGPT to do my job and in a second I had everything. »
What Nicolas does not know is that in five years, his clients will no longer need him: the situation is serious. The development of generative artificial intelligence is worrying, because it could eventually threaten the majority of tertiary professions, including the most “creative”. Faced with the increasingly obsolete nature of professional skills, they should be updated more and more often, with good « upskilling »say the professionals.
Upskilling consists of “increasing” (up) skills ” (skills) of an employee, in order to allow the continuation of his job. “Upskilling improves the operational performance of employees in their position, it will allow them to be more efficient and effectivesays Jenny Gaultier, director general of the Mercato de l’emploi, a network of recruitment consultants. The term has been widely used since the Covid. »
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The concept rather targets so-called “hard” skills, also called professional skills, those which were validated by diplomas at the time when « we did like that”, and where they were enough to be hired… But everything has changed.
Be careful here, not to confuse upskilling withupcycling, form of recycling which consists in creating something new with something old…
It is now a question of bridging the gap between the expectations of the employer and the reality of the skills of the employees – we speak in good French of « skills gap ». If we require new recruits to know a certain technology, we might as well allow others to acquire these skills, in order to stay up to date. Be careful here, not to confuse upskilling withupcycling, form of recycling which consists in creating something new with something old…
Can we then speak of “increasing skills”, as implied by the « up » ? To speak of improvement seems more appropriate, since that is the desired end. For a company, engaging in an upskilling process is a signal that it is getting ahead of the inexorable. “This investment will always cost less than losing competitiveness, or having to recruitemphasizes Jenny Gaultier. The turnover will be high if nothing happens. »
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