{"id":1047,"date":"2018-04-10T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/tl\/the-skills-revolution-are-we-really-ready\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:16:16","slug":"the-skills-revolution-are-we-really-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/ai-technology-and-innovation\/the-skills-revolution-are-we-really-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skills Revolution \u2013 Are We Really Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div\n\tid=\"tl-fpb-1\"\n\tstyle=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/06\/1809786-Banner-wide.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=4096);background-position:50% 50%;background-size:cover;min-height:500px\" class=\"tl-featured-post-banner wp-block-rbc-thought-leadership-blocks-featured-post-banner\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__gradient\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;z-index:0;pointer-events:none;\"><\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"tl-pill tl-pill--banner\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/ai-technology-and-innovation\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tAI, Technology and Innovation\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/ai-technology-and-innovation\/the-skills-revolution-are-we-really-ready\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Skills Revolution \u2013 Are We Really Ready?\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\tLearn how these organizations are prepping for the future of work: a third generation winery, Canada&#8217;s largest home care provider, and an entrepreneurial food program within a university, from the last RBCDisruptors: The Coming Skills Revolution.\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#RBCDisruptors: The Coming Skills Revolution\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gihZY_fi_Ac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\nThis is what you&#8217;ll hear whether you ask a third generation winery, the country&#8217;s largest home care provider, or an entrepreneurial program within a university \u2013 and we did just that.\n\nCanada is currently facing a &#8216;quiet crisis&#8217;, with half of all jobs being disrupted by technology and automation in the next decade. In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/dms\/enterprise\/futurelaunch\/_assets-custom\/pdf\/RBC-Future-Skills-Report-FINAL-Singles.pdf\">year-long study<\/a>, conducted by RBC, our team crisscrossed the country to speak with a wide range of students and youth in their early careers, employers in virtually every sector, as well as educators and policymakers.\n\nWe found that recent grads are overqualified for the jobs they have now, and youth are unemployed without the skills needed for the jobs currently out there.\n\n\u201cWe have to prepare youth for the future, from a skills perspective, and from an inclusion perspective,&#8221; said RBC President &amp; CEO Dave McKay.\n\nMcKay kicked off the last RBCDisruptors, our regular forum on innovation and how it&#8217;s changing the world around us. The event was organized in part to celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/dms\/enterprise\/futurelaunch\/about.html?utm_source=Discover-Learn&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=dl-166245\">RBC Future Launch<\/a>, a $500-million commitment over 10-years to prepare young Canadians for the jobs of tomorrow.\n\nWe also welcomed three dynamic employee\/employer pairs that told us how they are preparing for, and adapting to the future of work in their respective industries. Here&#8217;s some of what we learned:\n\n<div class=\"callout-quote rds-inverse right\"><div class=\"quote-content\"><p>We have to prepare youth for the future, from a skills perspective, and from an inclusion perspective.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"quote-source\"><p>RBC President &amp; CEO Dave McKay<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<h4>Technology Doesn&#8217;t Replace People<\/h4>\nWhen it comes to automation changing the nature of (some) jobs, technology should be embraced and not feared. There are many things machines can&#8217;t do, such as communication, critical thinking, complex problem solving and social perceptiveness.\n\n\u201cTechnology is not a job stealing, it&#8217;s job enhancing \u2013 it&#8217;s freeing up your time to use your human skills to devise new processes, and create community that can&#8217;t be done via technology,&#8221; said Thirty Bench winemaker Emma Gardner, who was joined by John Peller, CEO of Peller Estates. The<b> <\/b>winery is using innovative technologies such as drones and heat maps, empowering the winemakers and producing better wine.\n\nGardner uses her smartphone to track and harvest important data from their precious vineyards, such as wind speed, water saturation and vine health.\n\n\u201cWe are overwhelmed with data and it&#8217;s helping us be smarter and make decisions more quickly,&#8221; said Peller.\n\nHe points out that machines don&#8217;t make wine, they help people make better wine.\n<h4>Always Embrace Learning<\/h4>\nOne question Peller asks his employees is, \u201care you learning as fast as this world is changing?&#8221; He believes in creating a culture of learning and growing as a team.\n\nThis means more co-op placements with local post-secondary institutions, team collaboration, communication and leadership development. \u201cDrawing all those things together is what will keep a company successful in the future,&#8221; he said.\n\nAt Guelph University&#8217;s Arrell Food Institute, students learn entrepreneurship first-hand by building businesses from scratch, and gain workplace relevant, team-based, training experience that cannot be taught in the classroom. \u201cIt&#8217;s an experimental space, and gives people the full skills portfolio of what they need in the workforce,&#8221; said Evan Fraser, the Institute&#8217;s director.\n\nLeah Blechscmidt, a Masters Candidate and one of the student entrepreneurs at Arrell, is a firm believer that everyone should take marketing and business classes to further develop their communication skills, to sell their ideas. \u201cIt&#8217;s definitely an extension of our studies, as it gives us the opportunity to really apply the skills we&#8217;ve learned and develop new ones we wouldn&#8217;t otherwise have \u2013 it&#8217;s not every day you get the opportunity to start a business,&#8221; she said.\n<h4>Focus on Communication<\/h4>\n\u201cAll business is a human sport,&#8221; said Peller.\n\nArrell Food Institute students work in inter-disciplinary teams, gaining valuable interpersonal, critical thinking and project management skills.\n\nThe caregivers at Saint Elizabeth, which has a 9,000-strong workforce, act as coaches rather than directors into their patients&#8217; health. Nurses used to be the main holders of information, informing patients on their conditions. Nowadays, information is easily found online.\n\n\u201cWe&#8217;re not telling anybody about their disease \u2013 we&#8217;re sometimes translating it and interpreting it for them. We&#8217;re certainly not providing care to people, we&#8217;re providing together care, in a partnership,&#8221; said Shirlee Sharkey, CEO of Saint Elizabeth.\n\n\u201cI&#8217;m not just a nurse, I&#8217;m a caregiver, a shoulder to lean on and a social worker,&#8221; said Felicia Kontopidis, a registered nurse with Saint Elizabeth.\n<h4>Credentials Aren&#8217;t Enough<\/h4>\nIt used to be that credentials alone were enough to land you that dream job, but not anymore.\n\n\u201cI now look at credentials as the minimum requirement,&#8221; said Sharkey.\n\nWhen hiring, Saint Elizabeth looks for comfort to work independently, the ability to multitask and incredible organizational skills.\n\n\u201cWe&#8217;re bringing in and testing for those competencies well above and beyond credentials. 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