“What should my kids study at school? What will the jobs of the future be?” I get asked these questions all the time. The truth is…it’s hard to predict exactly what the jobs of the future will be. But we do know that the skills needed to succeed are changing. The skills we relied on to get to where we are now are not necessarily the skills that will propel us forward in the years ahead. I recently spoke at B2Believe London, LinkedIn’s premier event for B2B marketing leaders, and gave my answer to the question above. For more on the skills of the future and specifically, how the marketing profession is changing in the age of AI, please see our recently launched Global Marketing Jobs Outlook 2024. https://lnkd.in/gpCYUW5A #AI #FutureOfWork #MarketingJobsOutlook #B2Bmarketing
Amazing KC
4d
Key words The skill that brought us where we are will not be the skill that will push us further
David Timis
4d
I tend to disagree. While we cannot predict the jobs of the future, we have a good indication of what are the core set of transferable skills we should equip people with that are relevant regardless of the sector they work in. I like to call these core skills the 6Cs: communication, curiosity, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, convincing (i.e. sales-related skills).
Mish Moodley
4d
Both skills are too rare in the workplace - too often the same women who have these skills - too often get overlooked - simply because a lack of qualifications - makes them seem less valuable. Women should learn sales more - how to sell their own talents - how to recognise how good they actually are at dealing with a team of people they work with alongside and manage each and every day.
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Donald Young
8h
Here are a couple basic skills and abilities that young kids should be learning early on that will be vitally important in their careers and daily life. Fine motor skills and eye and hand coordination. What is one good way to do that? Cursive handwriting. First basic printing and then cursive. Handwriting may no longer be necessary for most jobs anymore but just think about it for a while and see if you don't see the merits of doing that again. I still have many forms from DMV to buying vehicles where first you have to print your name and the sign your name. Okay... responders?.....
Always a good reminder of the basics that never go out of style.
As I mentioned in another comment, if you're hoping for a career look towards being a beautician/stylist or plastic surgeon. edit : to clarify, with AI and automation humans are becoming irrelevant- but while we exist - on the basis of TT, FB, IG, YT - we wont tire of attention of others. Any job that helps facilitate that will survive (so there are others I omitted). A pretty face is worth far more than a degree from Harvard.
My generation was fraud with education like no other. We have spent 18 years in classes just so someone can tell us "that we do not know jack-stuff and we are about to learn how things are actually done..." My advice to future generation is finish only elementary school. Afterwards start working immediatly. At point where you are about 25 you will have 10 years of some experience and general idea what you wanna do. Then go to college or some highschool to gather theoretical knowledge about stuff you are already good at practically and to connect with people of similar interest for future endevour. Do not get screwed like us, learning for the most of our lives just so some dick-head can tell you that you do not know nothing and start developing in your 30's.
Cyrus C.
58m
My pennies worth is that education is not actually about the job market as much as people seem to think + it has a 20 year lag so how can it align ? Though of course related if education is aligned to forecasts of the future such that it panders to those forecast we risk loosing the fundamentals of knowledge + skills that have got us here in the first place, and can get us out if we dip too far in to a tyrany of AI - whatever that may become. Like most I worry about AI but in truth is really on a continuum of technological change that as a species we seem uniquely fascinated by. So I don't see that much change is needed other than the adaptations that the evolution of education will naturally adopt as it always has. Forecasts for the world 10 20 30 years out are inherently impossible and so the fundamentals re-emerge as the required solution - as they have worked so far. Knowledge (I include History, Arts, Crafts, Languages here as well as "the sciences") + the skills to listen, adapt, collaborate, empathise etc swing back as the proven pathway through life rather than some kind of sea change being needed. Rely on education adapting is what I am really saying rather than planning for futures we can't really determine yet.
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4dI see and hear you loud and clear Karin Kimbrough!