By the time you graduate from a degree or an apprenticeship, there will be many new jobs that haven’t even been invented yet. Technology expansion is rapid and who knows what jobs will be advertised in 10 years time, let alone 50?
According to a La Trobe University video featuring their Bachelor of Arts degree, by 2030 2 Billion jobs will be obsolete, http://bit.ly/1MBqTW0 They will be replaced by ones that don’t exist yet. The video also suggests you will have approximately 10 careers in your lifetime.
This doesn’t mean changing employers 10 times, this means different occupations. So, you may start out as a builder and then move on to teaching and then to nursing.
The message of the video is that you have to be able to adapt as the world changes. You will need to continually work on developing your personal skills such as communication, team work, and problem solving.
You will also need to commit to lifelong learning to have up to date skills and to be competitive in the job market. So you may complete a university degree, then a TAFE qualification, then short courses, then a graduate university course and then more short courses.
There is no right or wrong way of doing things, but you need to be flexible and adaptable when it comes to change, because if there is one thing you can be 100% sure of, there will be lots of it.
Amy Zuckerman is a journalist. She developed futuristic job advertisements for several technology careers, including:
Personal Virtual-Presence Agent
Automotive Hybrid and Fuel-Cell-Vehicle Research Engineer
Exobiologist to Study Alien Life-Forms
Senior Biocomputing Engineer
Digital Matchmaker
Gene Diagnostician
Read the advertisements here - http://bit.ly/1RIxuMa
If you think they sound far fetched, just remember that it wasn’t so long ago that Facebook didn’t exist, we couldn’t access the internet via our phone, and blue tooth and cloud computing didn’t exist.
We now have courses that focus on
Global security and terrorism
Genetic counselling
Geomatics
Human interface technology
Renewable and ‘green’ energies
iPhone & iPad App development, and
Social analytics and data science
Apprenticeship, TAFE and university courses will evolve and develop as technology and our society evolves. The future is very bright and the world is certainly your oyster!
The Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan and foresight strategists recently came up with descriptions for jobs that may exist in 2030. Apart from jobs that haven’t been invented yet, they have predicted what jobs may be like for occupations such as teaching, plumbing, etc., http://careers2030.cst.org/jobs/
Interesting job titles include:
Nostalgist
Rewilder
End of Life Therapist
Telesurgeon
Simolicity
Futurist Morris Miselowski predicts that by 2050, 60% of people will be doing jobs that don’t currently exist. He predicts we could be working in jobs such as:
Transhumanist Designer/Engineer
Nano Medic
Memory Augmentation Surgeon
Ethics Lawyer
Weather Controller
Spaceport Traffic Control
He believes that many jobs will focus on technology and the human body- improving health and extending human life, http://bit.ly/RN7wip
Whilst many of these jobs focus on science and technology, all jobs will be affected and will either become obsolete or undergo significant changes.
Whilst in school, it is crucial that you engage in your studies and keep an open mind about the future. What you aim to be doing in even 5 years, may not be what you will actually be doing.
Just remember the mantra- change is constant and access your allies to assist you to navigate through your career.
According to the Foundation for Young Australian’s, the world of work will look vastly different to the world of work you currently experience. Robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, working remotely, and increase in digital work…many things will change - even within the next 10 years.
According to their New Work Smarts report, you can expect the following to occur by 2030:
Automation and globalization will change what we do in every job.
Within the next 10 years, many jobs will no longer exist
Workers will spend 100% more time solving problems, 30% more time learning and 77% more time using STEM skills (science, technology, maths, engineering) than the same jobs demand now.
Workers will spend more time getting value out of technology and use more digital skills (e.g., updating websites)
Workers will be more flexible and independent in the workplace.
With globalization, more workers will collaborate with people around the world.
Workers will spend less time on routine and manual tasks due to automation, and more time focused on people, solving strategic problems and thinking creatively.
Teenagers can expect to work for an average of 17 employers over their lifetime across 5 different careers.
You can download the report at this link - http://bit.ly/2uE1V2e
AI will transform the way we work across all industries in the future. For example, more than 5 million jobs will disappear from manufacturing and customer service by 2020. Can apprenticeships help young people make a smooth transition to new jobs created by AI?
According to the World Economic Forum it's believed they can. There are new jobs and skills to be learned, with employers driving the change. See examples at this link - http://bit.ly/2HKuHo5
Interesting articles about the future world of work:
Eight futures of work: Scenarios and their implications, http://bit.ly/2HOcJ3O
Towards a reskilling revolution: a future of jobs for all, http://bit.ly/2osxLgp