Career trends: The essential skills you’ll need for the jobs of the next five years
When planning for the future, it’s better to look at long-term labor market trends, rather than currently ‘hot jobs’. For example, right now, Social Media Experts are in high demand. That’s because the technology is still relatively new, and organizations are learning how best to use it to communicate with consumers. By more ‘digital natives,’ people who’ve grown up always using social media tools, enter the workforce, these skills will be ubiquitous rather than specialties – rendering ‘experts’ no longer necessary. New media literacy will be one of the essential skills required as the price of admission for more and more roles. This is defined as the ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms and to leverage these media for persuasive communication. Digital literacy is the new literacy. One thing is clear, if a job can easily be automated, replaced by technology, then it probably will be. This is why we’re seeing the decline or ...