The labor market is rapidly shifting from a role-based system to a skills-based economy, accelerated by AI, even as employers, workers, and educators continue to rely on outdated job titles and generic résumé signals that no longer reflect how work is actually valued. Research from Wharton and Accenture, through the Wharton–Accenture Skills Index (WAsX), shows a growing “signaling gap” in which workers oversupply broad, generalist traits while employers reward more specific, role- and industry-dependent skills such as technical depth, analytical precision, digital execution, compliance, and domain expertise. The findings reveal that skill value is not universal—some skills raise wages in one role but reduce them in another—and that AI is redistributing economic value away from routine cognitive tasks toward judgment, coordination, and specialized knowledge. track these shifts, highlighting the need for employers to redesign work and compensation around real skill economics, for workers to market themselves as portfolios of high-value capabilities, and for educators to rebalance curricula toward scarce, job-ready skills, underscoring that skills—not titles—are now the true currency of the labor market.