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This report presents an analysis of the current state of the Irish labour market, and in particular an assessment of job displacement and the jobs and skills that can help displaced workers regain employment in Ireland. It offers a starting point for those requiring re-employment and identifies top job opportunities for the communities facing the most displacement, whether due to the pandemic or other factors. This report provides key insights to policymakers and workers looking to understand the effect of [Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19 on the Irish labour market and highlights opportunity for reskilling and upskilling to help get displaced workers in-demand jobs.

The first section analyses COVID-19's differential impact on the labour market by identifying occupations that had strong demand throughout both 2020 and 2021. Next, we investigate changing trends in skills with respect to selected job families, identifying how changes from COVID-19 and underlying labour market trends such as digitalisation have impacted these roles. In the following section, we identify jobs that were negatively affected by the pandemic and have not recovered. Finally, we investigate labour tightness in the current job market by observing trends in the benefits offered by employers, including remote work availability and willingness to train new employees.

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Based on analysis of more than 15 million job postings, this research demonstrates that the top 20 skills requested for the average job in the US have changed in the last five years, some becoming more in demand, some less. One in five of these skills is entirely new to their occupation since 2016. This means that existing jobs and the jobs being recruited for, are changing quickly. How can employers and workers keep up with that pace of change? This report identifies how 680 occupations are changing and offers practical advice for employers, workers, educators, and governments on how to keep up with change.

Emsi Burning Glass scans millions of job postings in the US every day and analyzes them using artificial intelligence technologies. The Skill Disruption Index is created by drawing on data sourced from online job postings between 2016 and 2021. The method examines current skill requests as well as their evolution over time. In each year, we looked at the proportion of each job that requires a skill and then tracked that skill to see how the proportion changed over time.

The pace of change has accelerated such that jobs are more disrupted today than ever before: we consider this period of time to be the Great Disruption, a workforce phenomenon that exists alongside the Great Resignation and the Great Recalibration and likewise demands swift and thoughtful action by employers and other stakeholders. Of course, not every job is getting disrupted uniformly - to the same degree, at the same rate, in the same way. Certain sectors (finance; design, media, and writing; business management and operations; HR; IT) have changed faster than others. The jobs that have changed the least are physical occupations, such as laborer/warehouse worker, packager, janitor/cleaner, tractor/trailer truck driver, and shipping/receiving clerk.

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