Human Judgment Skills Trends—April 2026

Human Judgment Skills Trends—April 2026

People and Culture Technology and Innovation Analysis
Pages:22 pages20 min read

Author: Signal49 Research

This research examines trends in demand for human judgment skills in job postings across Canada from January 2024 to December 2025. It offers recommendations to post-secondary institutions for designing programs to meet this demand.

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The Human Edge in an AI Age

In this research, we use online job postings data from our high-frequency labour market data, the Model of Occupations, Skills and Technology (MOST), and interviews with four post-secondary institution leaders to examine the hiring demand for human judgment skills by Canadian employers.

In this age of artificial intelligence, is there still demand for human judgment skills like risk management and critical thinking? Which sectors have the highest overall demand and wage premiums for human judgment skills? How can post-secondary institutions design programs to cultivate decision capability alongside technical and disciplinary knowledge?

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Key findings
Spotlight insights
Human judgment skills: The last mile is human
Employer demand for human judgment skills
Recommendations for post-secondary leaders
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Bibliography

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