Despite the concern that Artificial Intelligence will replace us all, there are still employers who are worried that their employees don’t possess the required skills.

An article on The Conversation site covers findings from a study conducted in the UK among employers in the creative sector but I imagine US employers are looking for people with similar skillsets.

Among the technical skillsets employers felt need to be cultivated were user experience design (UX), data analysis, and video editing. It is reassuring that companies are at least still focused on designing for human interaction and consumption.

Employers are looking for people with good teamwork, communication, problem solving, marketing and finance skills.

Some employers identified technology as being somewhat responsible for skills gap they were seeing. In other words, potential employees aren’t developing mid-career skills due to the availability of “…AI, machine learning, and upgrades to software such as Adobe Creative Suite.”

On the other hand, many employers didn’t feel they had the capacity to develop these skills in employees due to the small scale of their operations and budgets.

In the UK there have been some government supported apprenticeship and training programs that exist to that have often helped fill this gap, though many creative industries oriented programs have been cut.

In the US, it is less certain where the resources and perhaps the will to bolster training in these areas will come from.