Analysis commissioned by the Foundation of Young Australians, of 4.2 million job advertisements from 2012 to 2015, shows that demand for so-called enterprise skills - digital literacy and presentation abilities, are just as high as the technical skills relevant to the specific job.
So much so, that over the 3 year period the job ads showed a massive 212% increase in demand for digital skills.
In response the Foundation of Young Australians CEO, Jane Owen, called on state and federal governments to accelerate training in enterprise skills.
"Across almost every profession, no matter what it was and no matter what the technical skill was, employers were privileging these skills.”
"We used to call them soft skills but now they clearly are core to the marketplace in Australia and we suspect globally around what employers need."
Read the ABC’s review of the report.
