1) Soft skills

- Soft skills is a term used by employers to refer to the more intangible and non-technical
abilities that are sought from candidates. Soft skills are sometimes referred to as
transferable skills or professional skills. As this term implies, these are skills that are less
specialized, less rooted in specific vocations, and more aligned with the general
disposition and personality of a candidate.

2) Knowledge workers

- The idea of knowledge workers stemmed from the old-fashioned practice of getting
knowledge from an apprenticeship. What gave people the power to be knowledge
workers was the specific knowledge they gained from their apprenticeships. That
practice has taken modern shifts through college learning and internships, with people
gaining the specific skills they need in professional, university, and vocational training
that translates directly to the workplace.
- The attraction of knowledge workers to both rural and urban areas has economic and
social benefits to the communities these workers live and work in. The local and regional
economies benefit because businesses and industries are attracted to places where
there are knowledge workers.
- Not all knowledge workers want to work for someone, and many have the
entrepreneurial spirit. They are looking for places with business incubators that support
innovation and technology. Innovators and entrepreneurs can definitely benefit from
business incubators.
- Business incubators are a unique and highly flexible combination of business
development processes, infrastructure and people designed to nurture new and small
businesses by helping them to survive and grow through the difficult and vulnerable early
stages of development.
- Organizations have to invest in the necessary information tools to support their
knowledge workers and make them productive, and these investments generally cost far
more than those for the capital goods that support productivity in a traditional
manufacturing economy. At the same time, that capital investment is worthless unless
and until knowledge workers apply their knowledge

3) Learning workers

- Learning workers are those people who largely have college degrees and advanced
training, but what sets them apart is their knowledge of how to learn. Instead of having a
set of specific skills, learning workers have the skills to learn as they go, adapt, and
apply their learning to new situations and issues. They are taught to think for themselves
and apply the principles they learned to a variety of situations, continuing to adapt and
learn as they go