Generative AI and preparing for a shift to skills-based hiring [Video]

Organizations will have to reevaluate how they approach hiring, training, and upskilling as generative AI finds its way into modern business strategies. As a result, shifting to a skills-based hiring mindset will be crucial to keep pace with emerging technology in the future.

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As gen AI takes hold in the workplace, it’ll no doubt alter workflows, role requirements, and the skills necessary to get work done. The concern isn’t so much whether AI will replace jobs, but what skillsets the technology will replace, and how organizations and leaders can shift human priorities accordingly.

“AI is both a major disruptor and savior, in that gen AI specifically will influence 4.5 times the number of jobs it replaces and, yet, also has the capability to help manage and upskill the very skills it’s upsetting,” says Betsy Summers, an analyst at Forrester.

There’ll be tasks that AI will be able to perform better …