Governments and organizations have started waking up to the reality that jobs are going to change in the future. So what exactly is the future of our jobs? And more importantly, are we prepared for it?
Mobile app developer, Social media manager, Uber driver, Cloud computing specialist, Driverless car engineer, Data scientist, Drone operator, Sustainability manager, YouTube content creator, Millennial generational expert — Have you noticed anything peculiar about these jobs?
Apart from being rooted in technology, while many of these jobs seem like commonplace giving the impression that they have been here for long, these are actually pretty recent. These are a few of the jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago. This only tells us that the future appears to be coming on to us at a much faster rate than ever before and that the world around is changing much faster than we can fathom. As per the latest report “The Future of Jobs Report 2018” by the World Economic Forum, take a look at this timeline when machines will achieve human-like capabilities:
2024: Translating languages
2025: Assembling LEGO
2026: Writing high school essays
2027: Autonomous trucks
2029: Run a 5K race against people
2030: Customer service in retail
So what exactly is the future of our jobs? And more importantly, are we prepared for it?
The report states that a cluster of emerging roles will gain significant importance in the coming years while another cluster of job profiles are set to become increasingly redundant. Across all industries, by 2022, growth in emerging professions is set to increase their share of employment from 16 percent to 27 percent (11 percent growth) of the total employee base of company respondents, whereas the employment share of declining roles is set to decrease from currently 31 percent to 21 percent (10 percent decline). About half of today’s core jobs—making up the bulk of employment across industries—will remain somewhat stable in the period up to 2022.
This story is from the December 2018 edition of People Matters.
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