Some recent research that I have been reading has some interesting insights in the face of Covid that is important for students and parents to keep in mind as they look to potential pathways. From Australia - ING.
A decade’s worth of technological advancement and skills evolution is being compressed into 2020 due to COVID-19. The virus has unleashed a global ‘future of work’ experiment on us all and businesses have had to adapt at exponential speeds. Whilst STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education and coding have been touted as the skills of the future on a national level, the long-term trend suggests that we are better off reviving the at-times forgotten secrets of the right brain. Focusing blindly on STEM (the left side of the brain), would mean that we are skilling for jobs that may not be around in the future, or which will likely be trumped by machines. We are likely to see the increased use of exponential technologies like artificial intelligence doing the cognitive grunt work in areas in which it excels; like logic, sequence, mathematics, fraud detection and big data analytics. AI will help us do the cognitive ‘heavy lifting’ so to speak. At the same time, it will liberate humans to re-focus on creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, emotional intelligence and empathy in the workforce of tomorrow.The left brain is computational, and it is in this area of thinking that AI has already been stealing mindshare. The right brain is artistic, design-oriented, pattern recognising, futuristic,intuitive, feeling-based, empathetic and synthesizing. This fuzzy logic has not been fully grasped by machines yet and presents opportunities for us mere mortals. Skills that cannot yet be digitised have a premium on them.
Top in-demand skills | Innovation & Creativity | Digital /Data Literacy | Emotional Intelligence | Constant Curiosity & Adaptability | Pattern Recognition / Critical Thinking | Virtual Leadership | Storytelling
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