Five skills IT jobseekers should develop as AI reshapes the job market

ZDNET reports that AI is reshaping the IT job market and outlines five skills next-generation professionals can use to stand out. Research from Stanford cited by ZDNET suggests workers aged 22 to 25 are seeing the steepest employment declines, with software engineer jobs for that group down nearly 20% in 2025 compared with their 2022 peak.

The ZDNET piece highlights five priorities from business leaders: Dominic Redmond of PageGroup urges professionals to build business-technology translation skills and ask how AI deployment will drive value, cost, benefits and process change. Fausto Fleites of ScottsMiracle-Gro recommends blended capabilities that combine data or technical strengths with a business mindset.

Diana Schildhouse of Colgate-Palmolive stresses critical thinking and the ability to apply business context to AI outputs, and she also emphasises curiosity and a willingness to unlearn and relearn. Richard Corbridge of Segro says graduates must be able to learn on the job and that leaders should support evolving skills.

Those leaders also caution that generative AI has not yet delivered universally transformative efficiency gains and that AI is only as effective as the information provided to it, Corbridge said.

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