The half-life of technical skills keeps shrinking, but a core set of capabilities keeps showing up in every job description we analysed. Build these and you stay hireable regardless of which tools come and go.

1. Applied AI literacy

Not building models — using AI tools well. Prompting, verifying output, and knowing when not to trust it.

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AI literacy is now a baseline expectation, not a specialisation.

2. Communication that lands

Clear writing and the ability to explain complex ideas simply outranks almost every technical skill in manager surveys.

3–5: Adaptability, data sense & collaboration

Rounding out the list: learning agility, comfort reading data, and working well across remote, cross-functional teams.

We hire for trajectory, not just the current skill set. Show us you can learn fast. — A hiring manager we interviewed

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