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Title slide Jobs of the Future Claire Guy
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Today’s Session By the end of the session you will be able to: Recognise how technology and other changes are shaping the world See how this is likely to impact on employment and careers Consider how the workplace and the nature of work itself are changing Understand how this is impacting on job search techniques Be clear around what skills employers will be looking for in the future Be aware of strategies to keep your CEIAG up to date
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New Jobs Created Delivery dispatchers Driverless operating system engineers Traffic monitoring systems, although automated, will require a management team Automated traffic designers, architects, and engineers Emergency crews for when things go wrong Jobs Going Away Petrol stations, car park, traffic police, traffic wardens, traffic courts As people shift from owning their own vehicles to a transportation-on- demand system, the total number of vehicles manufactured will also begin to decline. Fewer doctors and nurses will be needed to treat injuries Bus, Taxi and limo drivers Lorry drivers Pizza, and mail delivery drivers Going Driverless
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Education Jobs Going Away Teachers Professors Trainers New Jobs Created Coaches Course designers Learning camps
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New Jobs Created 3D printer design, engineering, and manufacturing. 3D printer repairmen will be in big demand. Product designers, stylists, and engineers for 3D printers. 3D printer ‘Ink’ sellers. 3D Printing Jobs Going Away If printed clothes fit perfectly, clothing manufacturers and clothing retailers will quickly go away. Shoe manufacturers and shoe retailers will cease to be relevant. If we can print construction material, the lumber, rock, drywall, shingle, concrete, and various other construction industries will go away.
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Jobs Going Away Fishing, Mining and Agricultural bots will replace fishermen, miners and farmers Inspection bots will replace human inspectors Warrior drones will replace soldiers Robots can pick up building material coming out of the 3D printer and begin building a house with it New Jobs Created Robot designers, engineers, repairmen Robot dispatchers Robot trainers Robot fashion designers BOTS
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Supercomputer Watson from IBM is already giving medical advice for cancer treatment. On average his human counterparts are familiar with approximately 8 to 10 different cancer treatments. But today there are approximately 70 others practiced with another 200 in the research, clinical trial stages or just published in a scientific journal. For cancer patients this could make a significant difference in the battle between life and death. IBM Watson can deal with all this. A doctor possibly can’t. Medicine
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Work used to be considered a place
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Today people come together from all around the world, using amazing web programmes to communicate
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Project teams are beginning to resemble movie production teams
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Job Hopping is the new “Normal”
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In the past, careers were stable, linear and singular. People chose one path and pursued it over the course of their entire lives, from education to retirement
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“Of course you can become a vertical farmer Charlie, but do tell Daddy, what’s a vertical farmer?”
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Guidance Skills are timeless! ADVICE LISTENING EXPLORING GOAL SETTING RAISING ASPIRATIONS INFORMATION CHALLENGING
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Prepare for the Future With Your Employability Service www.facebook.com/PlymUniEmp @PlymUniEmp Career Nativator Various sessions and workshops on using social media, preparing for interviews, acing assessment centres and many more Offering daily appointments in the Roland Levinsky building bookable on the helpdesk.
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Employment Projections Projected growth in higher skilled occupations… as well as in Customer Service and Caring occupations. Declining employment in some skilled trades, administrative & secretarial occupations. Employment Growth & Projected Growth, ‘000 jobs, Devon, LEFM
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Post-industrial society The economy undergoes a transition from the production of goods to the provision of services. Knowledge becomes a valued form of capital, see human capital. Producing ideas is the main way to grow the economy. Globalization & automation leads to a decline in the prevalence and value of blue-collar & manual labour and a rise in the prevalence and value of professional workers (e.g. scientists, creative-industry professionals, and IT professionals)
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Qualifications Source: ONS Large increase in the number of people qualified to Level 4, despite fees % working age population qualified to Level 4+
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Wages by Qualification Source: APS / ONS Average hourly earnings by qualification Level, UK, 2011 Returns to higher level qualifications are much higher in the UK than in many other European Countries.
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Many jobs that existed in the past have vanished… or nearly vanished. Labour markets change…
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Assembly jobs – done in china Typists – we do our own Telephonists – automated out…. … and so on. But, they are mainly jobs done by people with low levels of qualifications. Graduates will need qualifications / skills to compete in the labour market. Declining Occupations
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The pace of change today remains fast. The fastest growing occupations are those that need Level 4 and Level 3 qualifications. Source: Labour Force Survey, analysed by UKCES in Skills for Jobs: Today and Tomorrow. Growing Occupations
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Jobs Going Away Gas stations, parking lots, traffic cops, traffic courts As people shift from owning their own vehicles to a transportation- on-demand system, the total number of vehicles manufactured will also begin to decline. Fewer doctors and nurses will be needed to treat injuries Taxi and limo drivers Bus drivers Truck drivers Pizza delivery drivers Mail delivery drivers New Jobs Created Delivery dispatchers Driverless operating system engineers Traffic monitoring systems, although automated, will require a management team Automated traffic designers, architects, and engineers Emergency crews for when things go wrong
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Jobs in web design, programming, online marketing and mobile phone industries didn’t exist 20 years ago
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Power Industry Jobs Going Away Power generation and coal plants will begin to close down Utility company engineers Line repairmen Many railroad and transportation workers will no longer be needed Even wind farms, natural gas, and bio-fuel generators will begin to close down New Jobs Created Manufacturing power generation units the size of ac units will go into full production Installation crews will begin to work around the clock The entire national grid will need to be taken down. Much of it will be recycled and the recycling process alone will employ many thousands of people Micro-grid operations will open in every community requiring a new breed of engineers, managers, and regulators
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