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“The rapid change in skills and knowledge rolling can mean that formal degrees are more quickly obsolete,” according to the Global IA Jobs 2025 PWC report.
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The demand for an employer for formal diplomas is down for all jobs, but faster for jobs exposed to artificial intelligence, according to the IA 2025 job barometer report by the PWC professional service company published last week.
“AI helps people to build quickly and to order expert knowledge … which could make formal qualifications less relevant”, according to the report which analyzed nearly a billion job announcements and thousands of financial reports of the company on six continents.
Technology also creates rapid turnover in the skills and knowledge that workers must succeed, which can mean that formal degrees become “obsolete” more quickly, added the report.
In the fields exposed to AI, what matters is more and more what people can do today, not what they have studied in the past.
Pwc 2025 ia Jobs barometer
In particular, the skills that employers are looking for change 66% more quickly in the professions most exposed to AI, such as the financial analyst, compared to those the least exposed, such as physiotherapist. This is up compared to the 25% recorded last year, according to PWC data.
“For workers, a more emphasis on skills on hiring diplomas can help democratize the opportunity, opening doors to those who have no time or resources to obtain formal diplomas,” said the report. “In the fields exposed to AI, what matters is more and more what people can do today, not what they have studied in the past.”
Are diplomas obsolete?
Today, education is no longer limited to institutions or formal universities, as you can learn using tools and LLM (large -language models), the World Director of PWC, Joe Atkinson, told CNBC. In order to adapt and quench your career in the rapid work landscape in the future, he suggested an update on AI at home.
“I think that the ability that individuals will have to exploit large amounts of knowledge is amplified at that time of AI,” said Atkinson. This leads to a new type of economy where “the bar for everyone goes higher, because the access that we all have to knowledge will be greater”.
The reality is that we cannot fear technology. We have to kiss technology.
Joe Atkinson
IA world officer in chief, Pwc
“AI models develop capacities at a speed that is incredible … I think anyone is not uncomfortable, the impression of constantly trying to follow, is probably not careful,” he said.
He suggested exploring the different models of AI, determining the differences between them, learning to cause LLM, monitoring technological blogs and practicing the use of tools as much as possible.
“What is most important is that AI skills are practical skills. These are skills applied … You have to use technology,” he said. Dedication to self-learning at that time becomes “the new table issues. If you are unable to do so, you will be late so quickly.”
“The reality is that we cannot fear technology. We have to kiss technology,” added Atkinson.
But in the end, formal education is not only to acquire knowledge and skills-“it is the whole person,” he said. “This is what you think and how you interact and how you criticize. I think these superior capacities … become more precious in the future, no less.”
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