10 Key Features For Future Labor Market

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An American research has come forward to ten attributes and skills that will be important in the future. Find out what you should be in 2020.

What future jobs will be - and involve of course is difficult to predict, but American Institute for the Future (IFTF) has come forward to ten properties that they believe will be important in 2020.

The report has been named "Future Work Skills 2020" and focuses on long-term forecasts and try to analyze some of the key factors in the future labor market, such as new technology, new media and new social structures. The ten qualities they have come forward are qualities that will help you to keep up with a changing job market. In the report it also appears that politicians and educational institutions also need to ensure that offers of upcoming students keep pace.

1 - Opinion Creative:

The ability to find the deeper, often underlying meaning or significance of what is being expressed. In other words, this is about critical thinking. The growing development of smart technology requires people who can help with the skills machines have not - as analytical and critical thinking. Machines can calculate and determine the facts, but are not as skilled at assessing them.

2 - Social Intelligence:

The second feature is the ability to get in touch with others in a sincere and direct way, and stay alert to reactions and expected interactions. Those who have social intelligence has the ability to read the moods around them, and customize their own words and actions by them. Whether it's humor, empathy or discretion requires social intelligence to adapt.

3 - Adaptable thinking:

The ability to come up with solutions that go beyond normal procedures and rules will be more in demand in the future. Machines have taken over many tasks in the workplace, but the ability to deal with unforeseen situations will still be in demand. The report says that this will be particularly in demand in the offshore industry.

4 - Cross-cultural competence:

The fourth property that are highlighted in the report is the ability to work in different cultural settings. This applies not only to different ethnic cultures, but considering the age, knowledge, work cultures and ways of thinking. The key is the abilities to communicate well at the junction of various norms, preferences and jargon.

10 Key Features For Future Labor Market

5 - Data-understanding:

This is about the ability to understand large amounts of data and translating them into abstract concepts and understand data-based reasoning. The report suggests that statistical analysis and the ability quantitative reasoning will be valuable properties.

6 - Managing the new media:

The sixth is the ability to critically assess and develop content for new media forms, and also be able to utilize these media for compelling communications. These are properties that are already making themselves felt, but the report notes that the service used socially today, will be fully integrated into modern workplaces.

7 - Interdisciplinary understanding:

This is about the ability to read and understand concepts across disciplines. Future employees must be able to handle other professional jargon than their own, which would require that one is prepared to evolve throughout his career. Will in future work as an architect means that you also need to understand graphic design and such newer climate research.

8 - Design-mindset:

The eighth feature is the ability to design and develop solutions for unconventional desires. Future employee must have a keen sense for the different approaches new working environments will require. One must be adaptable and think again, and be prepared for the new requirements as new media and new technologies will require of us.

9 - Separating out important information:

This is about the ability to separate out the most important information, and to understand how to utilize it. To avoid that one gets overloaded of information it is important that one is able to separate the central of all the noise. Further information must be handled so that it hits their desired audience.

10 - Virtual Collaboration:

Lately Institute for the Future identifies is the ability to work productively and engaged in a virtual team. Cooperation through new communication technologies will require more of both employees and managers. It will require a different form of management to motivate employees in the new technological environment.

Employees can handle more of these ten characteristics can get a headstart on the future labor market. Much of the challenge lies, however, with education institutions.