{"id":9166,"date":"2021-10-26T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T03:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2021-10-26T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T03:25:47","slug":"post-pandemic-competency-and-skills-demand-in-thai-labor-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/en\/9166\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-pandemic competency and skills demand in Thai labor market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the country is preparing for the post-pandemic recovery,&nbsp;NXPO Vice President Dr. Kanchana Wanichkorn&nbsp;shared her thought on Thailand\u2019s future of work.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"539\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-5.png\" alt=\"A person working on their laptops\n\nDescription automatically generated with medium confidence\" class=\"wp-image-9168 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-5.png 822w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-5-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-5-768x504.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 822px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 822\/539;\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NXPO conducted a survey on high-skilled workforce demands in the strategic industries in the next five years (2020-2024). The result revealed more than 170,000&nbsp;high-skilled&nbsp;jobs&nbsp;will be added&nbsp;in the 12 target industries&nbsp;over the next five years.&nbsp;Amon these high-skilled jobs&nbsp;are&nbsp;data scientist, crop modeling analyst&nbsp;for agricultural sector&nbsp;and digital marketing specialist&nbsp;for wellness and high-income tourism.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to knowledge and competency, the future workforce should possess skills that will help them adapt to whatever challenges coming along.&nbsp;The World Economic Forum (WEF)&nbsp;identified top 15 skills for 2025 workforce to be:&nbsp;1)&nbsp;analytical thinking and innovation;&nbsp;2)&nbsp;active learning and learning strategies;&nbsp;3)&nbsp;complex problem-solving;&nbsp;4)&nbsp;critical thinking and analysis;&nbsp;5)&nbsp;creativity, originality and initiative;&nbsp;6)&nbsp;leadership and social influence;&nbsp;7)&nbsp;technology use, monitoring and control;&nbsp;8)&nbsp;technology design and programming;&nbsp;9)&nbsp;resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility;&nbsp;10)&nbsp;reasoning, problem-solving and ideation;&nbsp;11)&nbsp;emotional intelligence;&nbsp;12)&nbsp;troubleshooting and user experience;&nbsp;13)&nbsp;service orientation;&nbsp;14)&nbsp;systems analysis and evaluation; and&nbsp;15)&nbsp;persuasion and negotiation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change in job market&nbsp;will not only&nbsp;affect individual workers&nbsp;but&nbsp;also require&nbsp;the&nbsp;transformation of&nbsp;higher education system&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure that higher education meets the need of the society and economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country is preparing for the post-pandemic recov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-5.png","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/author\/adminsti\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-5.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9169,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions\/9169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}