3 Trends shaping the
jobs of the future
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…using
technologies that haven’t yet been invented…in order to solve problems we
don’t even know are problems yet – Richard Riley, Secretary of Education
under Clinton
The job market has changed incredibly in the past 100 years; even the past decade
has seen a proliferation of jobs that previously did not exist. Jobs such as app
designer, social media manager, big data architect and cloud services specialist
showcase the transformation the labour force has undergone in the past years. Take
as example the invention and mass consumption of the smartphone: The original
iPhone was introduced in 2007, shortly followed by the Android. Since this
introduction, more than one million apps have been created and sold—by 2011 alone,
over US$15 billion in revenues came from mobile applications. LinkedIn, Facebook,
YouTube and Twitter were all founded between 2003 and 2006, but all of these
networks grew exponentially only after 2008. These examples help showcase the
point that innovation and technology are expected to continue to drive the jobs of the
future across economies in the world (Casserly, 2012).
The very nature of work, and the jobs that future generations seek, is changing. In
the developed world, earlier generations could easily rely on one job for their entire
professional careers while in the developing world, many generations were relegated
to the same work their parents’ generation had performed. This is rapidly changing,
as millions are lifted out of poverty by massive growth in Southeast Asia, Latin
America, and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Rapid urbanization across the globe, and
both a decrease in the cost of technology and increase in its availability, have
combined to more closely align the job interests and perceptions amongst Millennials
from New York City to Mumbai to Nairobi. Previous generations’ assumptions on
the where and who of innovation are being cast aside by a global cohort of
entrepreneurs, investors, educators, and others who are bucking the traditional
model.
Listed below are some of the most influential trends to arise in the recent decades.
While there are many other trends also influencing the workforce, those listed in this
report have been selected for their level of impact and the disruptions they are likely
to cause to jobs and the workforce in the next decades.
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