The new blue-collar labor force will need four “distinctively morehuman” core competencies: complex reasoning, social and emotionalintelligence, creativity and certain forms of sensory perception.(Photo: Shutterstock)
It's hiring day at Rolls Royce's jet-engine plantnear Petersburg, Virginia. Twelve candidates are divided into threeteams and given the task of assembling a box. Twelve Rolls Royceemployees stand around them, one assigned to each candidate, takingnotes.
The box is a prop, and the test has nothing to do withprogramming or repairing the robots that make engine parts here.It's about collaborative problem solving.
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