{"id":51083,"date":"2020-02-17T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=51083"},"modified":"2020-02-16T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T21:00:41","slug":"if-youre-preparing-students-for-21st-century-jobs-youre-behind-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/if-youre-preparing-students-for-21st-century-jobs-youre-behind-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re preparing students for 21st century jobs, you\u2019re behind the times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every year, the Australian Taxation Office\u00a0releases a report<\/a>\u00a0that includes the highest earning occupations in Australia. These are mostly in the medical, legal and financial sectors.<\/p>\n

This information is commonly used by school career advisers, together with\u00a0other career development material<\/a>, to help teenagers make career choices.<\/p>\n

But the nature of work is changing rapidly under the\u00a0fourth industrial revolution<\/a>. This is driven by disruptive technologies such as automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning and digitalisation.<\/p>\n

The change is expected to lead to the complete loss of some jobs (such as those in repetitive, production-line manufacturing), the need for significant re-skilling in other jobs (such as pilots and radiologists) and the creation of completely new ones (such as robot trainers and big data analysts).<\/p>\n

So, what should career guidance counsellors be doing to ensure today\u2019s children have the skills for jobs of the future, not of the past?<\/p>\n

What teenagers want<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A\u00a0recent OECD survey<\/a>\u00a0showed teenagers\u2019 career expectations were concentrated in ten so-called \u201c20th century\u201d careers. These include doctors, teachers, lawyers and business managers.<\/p>\n

These choices have remained unchanged for almost two decades. For girls, they have become even more popular since 2000. This suggests a significant gap between teenagers\u2019 career knowledge and choices, and the reality of the rapidly changing nature of work.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u00a0estimated<\/a>\u00a0on average, 14% of jobs across OECD countries are prone to becoming automated and another third could face substantial changes in how they are performed. Nearly half of the jobs in OECD countries are at significant risk of being automated over the next ten to 15 years.<\/p>\n

Careers related to how humans and machines or computers complement each other\u00a0will provide new employment opportunities<\/a>\u00a0across different sectors. Commercial passenger airliner pilots, for instance, will\u00a0steadily adjust<\/a>\u00a0to new supervisory roles due to autonomous flight.<\/p>\n