We have carried out research into employment data from 2001 to 2016, a period including the instability and collapse in confidence following the financial crisis. Our analysis found that workers with the strongest transferable skills, such as analytical, communication and strategic skills, which are all inherently ‘human’, proved the most resilient to this economic shock and to automation. 

These occupations have driven the majority of job growth since the turn of the century, with the top 20 per cent in our research accounting for over half of the total net job creation (1.9m jobs). In contrast, occupations with the least transferable skills (bottom 20 per cent) were vulnerable to displacement, and saw a significant net fall of 530,000 jobs.