It seems like technical skills are all anyone cares about in the neverending war for talent. But with machines eliminating more and more technical tasks, soft skills will become the big hiring differentiator. Here are the skills yet to be claimed by our technological overlords that you should develop further. Machines may have found a formula for writing novels and songs in Orwell's "1984", but so far creativity is something that they are otherwise struggling with. In The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson predicts that technology will amplify human creativity. Maybe the big opportunity for humans is to pair up with machines to take creative ideas and turn them into groundbreaking product execution.

It seems like technical skills are all anyone cares about in the neverending war for talent. But with machines eliminating more and more technical tasks, soft skills will become the big hiring differentiator. Here are the skills yet to be claimed by our technological overlords that you should develop further. Machines may have found a formula for writing novels and songs in Orwell's "1984", but so far creativity is something that they are otherwise struggling with. In The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson predicts that technology will amplify human creativity.