5 Essential Skills You Need To Keep Your Job In The Next 10 Years

This article at Fast Company goes over the skills workers will need to stay competitive in the evolving manufacturing industry.

By some estimates, roughly half of U.S. jobs will be potentially affected by automation in the near future. So what are the skills we need to build now to remain employable over the next decade? While specific abilities and knowledge will certainly vary from industry to industry, there are some overarching trends that will affect most of us says workplace futurist Jeanne Meister, a partner at Future Workplace, a New York workplace consultancy. Here are five skills to start building now to maintain your marketability over the next decade.