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1. 🔊 What industry do you work in and what is your role?
2. 🔊 What are your responses in your role / position?
3. 🔊 Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
4. 🔊 How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
5. 🔊 What is the Minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
6. 🔊 How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
7. 🔊 What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?

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🔊 General discussion about your workweek:

1. 🔊 Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
2. 🔊 Anything of interest happening?

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/adigaskell/2018/11/15/new-report-suggests-21-jobs-for-the-future/#1db15d23549d

https://www.cognizant.com/whitepapers/21-more-jobs-of-the-future-a-guide-to-getting-and-staying-employed-through-2029-codex3928.pdf

https://www.cognizant.com/jobs-of-the-future-index

Script

1. 🔊 It’s rather unfortunate that much of the dialogue around the future of work has been on the number of jobs that will be lost and so on. It’s a narrative that doesn’t really provide an accurate reflection of the true state of things.
2. 🔊 After the hyperbole around the topic has subsided a little however, there is a growing consensus that AI-driven technology will change the kind of work we do, which will require adaptation both of the roles themselves and the skills required to perform them.  It will automate some entirely (although not as many as predicted), and the productivity gains will result in new jobs emerging.
3. 🔊 It’s difficult to go too far down this path without getting into the realm of science fiction, but one of the more grounded attempts at doing so comes via a recent report from consultancy firm Cognizant, who have suggested 21 jobs that might emerge in the coming years.
4. 🔊 The report has orientated the jobs they propose around the two axes of tech-centricity and time. They’ve endeavored to create a mixture of high-tech and low-tech jobs, with some beginning to appear in the marketplace already and some a distant spot on the horizon. Cognizant have form in this area, and published a similar paper last year, in which they suggested that jobs of the future will revolve around coaching, caring and connecting. This underlined the importance we place on the human touch.
5. 🔊 In this latest report, they again tap into the deep seams of human emotions to find new bedrocks for this new wave of jobs. They argue that ethics will play a huge role, both in ensuring that machines behave in a way we’re happy with, and the organizations we work for. They propose jobs such as Algorithm Bias Auditor and Head of Machine Personality Design.
6. 🔊 They also believe that security will remain a huge issue in the future, and therefore roles such as Cyber Attack Agent and Machine Risk Officer will potentially come to the fore. Lastly, they believe that new jobs will emerge that are very aspirational in nature and help us to bring our high-tech dreams into reality. These might include Vertical Farm Consultant and Smart Home Designer.
7. 🔊 Suffice to say, some of the roles identified by Cognizant require very different skills than those commonly used in the labor market today.  Perhaps the best lesson to take away from the report however is that such is the pace of change in the workplace that skills are now akin to mobile apps, which require constant upgrades to ensure they’re viable.

Discussion

1. 🔊 What jobs do you predict for the future?

2. 🔊 What are the most recent “new” positions in your workplace?

3. 🔊 What industries have you noticed changing the most?

 

Keywords

1. 🔊 dialogue – discourse / discussion / communication
2. 🔊 narrative – a story / a tale
3. 🔊 true state of things –  the real situation
4. 🔊 hyperbole – exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
5. 🔊 subsided –  become less intense
6. 🔊 consensus – a general agreement.
7. 🔊 grounded – well balanced and sensible. Realistic
8. 🔊 tech-centricity – in or at the centre; central. forming an opinion or evaluation originating from a specified viewpoint.
9. 🔊 distant spot on the horizon – far away (time or place)
10. 🔊 human touch – friendly, personable and warm. / qualities of a human
11. 🔊 tap into – To access a resource or object
12. 🔊 bedrocks – the fundamental principles on which something is based.
13. 🔊 fore / front
14. 🔊 aspirational – a hope or ambition of achieving something. / Desire
15. 🔊 Suffice to say – used to indicate that one is saying enough to make one’s meaning clear while withholding something for reasons of brevity.
16. 🔊 Cognisant – having knowledge or awareness.
17. 🔊 akin – similar to