From Skills Gaps To Future Skills: Building the Metals & Engineering Workforce of Tomorrow

Join the SEIFSA Human Capital and Skills Development Team for an insightful seminar, “From Skills Gaps to Future Skills: Building the Metals & Engineering Workforce of Tomorrow.”

This seminar will bring together industry leaders, human resource professionals, skills development practitioners, and other key stakeholders to explore the trends and challenges shaping the future workforce. Discussions will focus on the evolving nature of jobs and skills, the impact of emerging technologies, talent attraction and retention strategies, workforce planning, leadership development, and the importance of building adaptable, inclusive, and future-ready organisations. 

Key topics to be covered include: 

• Key Note Address: People, skills and the future of Metals and engineering 
• What the data tells us: The emerging skills and occupations reshaping metals & engineering 
• Where are the young people? Rebuilding the youth-to-industry pipeline 
• Future-ready Metals and Engineering workplaces: Skills, technology and productivity 
• Employability: From hiring for skills to continuously developing workforce capability 
• Future-proofing the Metals and Engineering workforce: The human skills AI cannot easily replace 

Who should attend? 

• Skills development facilitators 
• HR Officers/ HR Generalists 
• HR Managers/HR Business Partners 
• Transformation Managers/ Employment Equity Managers 
• HR Directors/HR Executives 

This seminar will consist of experienced speakers, touching on the mentioned topics and promises to be a very engaging and impactful session.