Monday 2 p.m., Nicolas is already on weekends: all Guilleret, this website creator launched ten in one morning, and everyone already has many articles. “I discovered something magic, 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 customers will no longer need him: the time is serious. The development of generative artificial intelligences worries because it could eventually threaten the majority of tertiary trades, including the most “creative”. Faced with the increasingly obsolete character of professional skills, they should be updated more and more often, with a good “Upskilling”, say the professionals.
Upskilling consists in “increasing” (up) the “skills” (skills) of an employee, in order to allow the continuation of his profession. “Upskilling improves the operational performance of employees in their position, it will allow them to be more efficient and efficient, specifies Jenny Gaultier, director general of the employment transfer window, a network of recruitment consultants. The term is very Used from the COVID. “
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The concept aims rather the so -called “hard” skills, also called business skills, those that were validated by diplomas at the time when “we did like that”, and where they were enough to be hired … but everything has changed.
It is now a question of filling 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 demand new recruits that they know such technology, you might as well allow others to acquire these skills, to stay at the level. Be careful here, not to confuse the upskilling with the upcycling, a form of recycling which consists in creating new with old …