SINGAPORE: Creative skills are becoming a requirement for jobs not traditionally part of the creative sector, a report by SkillsFuture Singapore ( SSG) has found.
The latest version of the annual knowledge report found that seven out of 10 non-creative work jobs need creative abilities.
For example, application developers need to know design to create apps that are consumer friendly. Restaurant managers also need skills in branding and attracting customers, beyond running the restaurant, said SSG in a press release on Wednesday ( Jan 22 ).
According to the report, 40 artistic skills have become more transferable since 2019, which indicates that more work roles are extremely asking for creative abilities.
There are about 150,000 artistic specialists in Singapore, and one-third of them work in companies in artistic business, said SSG in the media release. These include the performing art, product design, internet, structures, as well as branding, advertising and marketing.
The additional two-thirds take on innovative jobs in different companies, SSG’s review found.
Company, financial management and people management skills even remain in high demand for work in the creative sectors, and the need for skills related to function greatness is rising, SSG noted.
The report explores a crucial question – the effects of artificial intelligence on creative business, said Minister of State for Education Gan Siow Huang at the start of the statement on Wednesday.
“ While GenAI tools can support creative work, it is also important to guide ethical use of these tools, ” she added.
For the record, 87 creative experts were polled on their behaviour towards relational artificial intelligence. About 85 per cent said quite tools have an impact on their work, while 34. 5 per share felt severely about the development of relational AI.
More than 50 per cent of those polled had used some form of relational AI tools in their job, the statement said.
“Creative experts emphasise the importance of applying human ingenuity and AI features in a mutually reinforcing manner, ” said SSG in the media release.
“They expressed fears over concerns of morality, intellectual property, and production quality related to conceptual AI usage, which suggest that there could be emerging job jobs, tasks or skills dedicated to addressing these concerns. ”
Equipment AND APPS
For its latest record, SSG studied information on more than 5,000 online software and equipment between 2019 to 2023 to know how they are used across work roles.
Apps and tools are “widely used ” across many job roles today, and the list in the report provides a more complete understanding of what a worker needs for a job, SSG said.
Proficiency requirements for apps and tools were most often found in job postings for IT, engineering and operations roles, the report said.
The top 20 apps and tools in 2023 mainly comprised productivity tools, programming languages, as well as software designed for managing data, processes and projects, SSG said in the press release.
With “significant industry attention ” on AI applications, SSG also studied the subset of the related apps and tools, such as Java, Python and Google Analytics, it said.
Proficiency requirements for apps and tools related to AI were found most often in job postings for roles in IT, engineering and research, the report found.
From 2019 to 2023, the four apps and tools in this category that grew the most in demand were Microsoft CRM, AWS Cloud9, Microsoft Azure and ServiceNow, SSG said.
“The upward movement of these AI-related apps and tools suggests that more employers are leveraging cloud services to enhance business processes, ” the press release read.
NEW DASHBOARDS
Ms Gan also announced the launch of a new online portal to enhance access to data and insights on jobs and skills, which can be found here. Most of the data displayed on the dashboards come from job postings that are available online, as well as government data on the job market.
There are six dashboards available on the portal, including a skills and job mobility dashboard, which can be used to understand how different factors can be considered when exploring career transition opportunities.
SSG examined five factors that made career transitions viable based on 342 job roles that showed a strong growth in demand. The five factors are wage levels, the level of demand, how much demand has grown, how similar the skills are and historical transitions.
The job requirements dashboard allows users to explore the top skills, as well as the apps and tools required for a specific job role over the years.