Human Beings | Being Human

Reclaim your agency in the era of AI agents!

Explore our Skills Ontologies

We have documented the top 250 human-type skills and assembled them into ten main categories. Feel free to browse and understand the relationships in these ontologies:

Adaptability

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Collaboration

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Communication

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Conflict Resolution

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Creativity

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Critical Thinking

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Emotional Intelligence

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Global Thinking

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Leadership

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Organization

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Social & Emotional Learning: Pupils

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Social & Emotional Learning: Staff

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Our aim is that by providing easy access to our categorizations of in-demand human skills, we will benefit everyone in three main ways:

We create a shared understanding of what it means to be a skilled human so employers, employees, educators, and students can all talk the same language.
Any person can add those skills they already have to their professional profile, along with easily-articulated evidence of how they gained them.
Anyone can spot where they might need to develop further skills, and can guide their individual journeys to ensure they survive and thrive, regardless of AI impact.

Moreover, regardless of how AI affects the global workforce, we commit to maintaining these ontologies that still define what it is to be a 'Skilled Human'. This includes striving for basic rights (such as maintaining one's own agency) and important concepts (such as avoiding the delegation of important decisions to AI). We feel this is especially important where elements of social justice are involved, and we genuinely believe this to be an important principle for which we should all strive.

Coming Soon!

For Schools, Educators, and Pupils
Social & Emotional Learning Ontologies
Ofsted Inspection Frameworks
Student Careers Framework
School Staff Development
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The world of AI is uncertain
On the one hand, there is a lot of talk about AI agents and vendor-led hype about their capabilities.
On the other hand, there are those who claim that the AI bubble will burst (or is bursting).

In the middle of all this is you and your fellow humans!

The idea of AI agents replacing humans in the workforce should be a major concern for anyone—including current employees, students, and educators—regardless of how effective (or not) those agents turn out to be.

At the Skilled Human Organization we do not attempt to predict the future. We do not take a position on what the world of work will look like, nor what AI can achieve. Instead, we simply keep a close eye on the skills that are actually in demand by employers across the globe and we remain technology-agnostic.

The good news is that human-oriented skills remain the most commonly sought-after skills!

Seven of the ten most requested skills (such as collaboration, communication, teamwork, leadership, creativity, and critical thinking) are human-type skills.
The top five human-type skills are specified in job postings nearly five times more often than the top five technical skills (including those related to AI).
And when AI becomes as ubiquitous as electricity, those human-type skills might once again define what 'good' looks like in any employee's profile.
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We analyze millions of current job descriptions and categorize these human-type skills into rich ontologies. These ontologies show the relationships between each skill, and they provide rich definitions of the skills and their relationships.

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