If predictions of technology disrupting entire industries come to pass, workers will need the ability to move into different types of jobs and at different points in their career, and apply their underlying transferable ‘human’ skills to different contexts.

The ability to acquire knowledge and apply to different situations is enormously important for job success. However the ‘static’ knowledge that has enabled humans to complete cognitive or physical rules-based tasks in the past, such as spotting anomalies in x-rays or a factory assembly line is increasingly obsolete as automation becomes more sophisticated.