LinkedIn on the ‘Great Reshuffle’: Green skills, green jobs, and blind spots

LinkedIn on the ‘Great Reshuffle’: Green skills, green jobs, and blind spots

LinkedIn embarked on an ambitious analysis of data from its nearly 800 million members worldwide to derive insights on the green transition. But while useful, the analysis comes with its blind spots, too.

The “Great Resignation” is making the headlines, but LinkedIn and the World Economic Forum argue it’s all part of the “Great Reshuffle” — a time when everyone is rethinking everything. The term first aired in 2021 and has been making the rounds since.

LinkedIn purports that the Great Reshuffle presents a unique opportunity to tackle humanity’s most urgent challenge: climate change. We have to enable the green transition and activate the jobs, companies and policies that power it, but there are a number of challenges associated with that.

That’s the introduction to LinkedIn’s recently published Global Green Skills Report 2022. As LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky writes in the report, LinkedIn wants to do its part by leveraging its unique data and labour market expertise to highlight actionable insights that are crucial to delivering a successful green transition and avoiding potential pitfalls.

LinkedIn’s data are a valuable source of insights. However, there are also important blind spots in the report.

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