Fourth Industrial Revolution: knowledge and skills needed foremployees

Abstract

This paper analyzes the impact of the new industrial revolution on employees, as well as presents skills needed foradapting to the digital business transformation. It has been concluded that among general skills there is a growing needfor uniquely human abilities, such as emotional intelligence, creativity, communication skills, etc. The importance oftechnical knowledge (the ability to work effectively with software, programming, general digital literacy) is growing. Ingeneral, to create a successful and competitive workforce, companies need to act in two directions - to form training andmonitoring systems for skills and knowledge in accordance with the needs of the market, as well as to promote the ideasof life-time learning, that is, continuous independent education.