Two of my friends are in their 40s and 50s and both studied marketing about 20 years ago, back in the late 90s and early 2000s. They told me that they feel that the skills they learned back then would…
Every now and again we refresh the world’s leading skills in terms of demand and pay. I say world because more and more people are working remotely and so it is more feasible today than ever before to be able…
I often refer to the writings of Thomas Frey, one of the world’s leading futurists and in one of his latest blogs, he once again hits the nail on the head with respect to identifying some pretty relevant things that…
An updated short list of Jobs of the Future I follow this aspect of future job forecasting quite closely. And whilst many authors seem to play safe and “copy” expected future job titles from others or from “safe” global publications…
Living in the new world Alan and I have often spoken about three areas that our youth is now considering in terms of securing better employment. One is “traditional”, one has been around for about a decade and has accelerated…
Play to earn In the 17th and 18th Centuries people from Europe were exploring and expanding into new parts of the world, seeking out new lives for themselves and building new industries. In much the same way today, there is…
Farming Jobs of the Future Hydrogels, drones, networks and sensors are all the new buzzwords in the future of South African agriculture. Anyone who is interested in studying agriculture has an exciting future ahead of them because technology is about…
I recently attended an online course on Futurism by the futurist, Thomas Frey, and one of the topics he dealt with was education or at least the future of education. He predicted that the biggest company in the world in…
Recent studies in the UK and the US suggest that somewhere between 1,5 and 3,5 jobs are lost to every new robot / piece of technology that takes over the job. Although this is a net figure (it takes into…
There are loads of online articles showcasing the changing world of work – now, but especially in 5 to 10 years. Many articles point to a world where the majority of the working world will involve people multi-tasking their careers.…
I anticipate that before the year 2026 people will be able to call an Uber by thinking they want an Uber. No cellphone, no swiping. Please allow me to explain my thoughts… Around April this year, Elon Musk’s Neuralink announced…
On the 14th of January this year, Thomas Frey published an article on big global challenges that face us (and our children). Here is a summary with some added thoughts...
Google’s new 6-month online certifications areequivalent to a 4-year degree Instead of studying a 3 or 4 year degree with no real guarantee of employment, Google now offers 6 month certifications with a great chance of employment. Google made this…
The Happiest Industries To Work In (And The Skills You Need) People who worked for a non-profit organisation in 2020 were the happiest employees (https://www.payscale.com/data/end-of-year-report-2020) These employees rarely left their jobs and were mostly satisfied (76%). Other satisfying industries to…
The Top 5 career areas & Top 10 jobs within the next 5 years In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the global market from 2021 onwards will be driven by three primary long-term factors: The rapid emergence of AI-driven…
Youth unemployment rate higher irrespective of level of education Unemployment numbers are released every quarter by Statistics South Africa, even during the Covid-19 lockdown period, and as expected, during 2020, unemployment continued to increase. In May 2019 however, Statistics South Africa released…