5 Skills for 21st Century Jobs

Five skills needed in the 21st century job market are the topics of this episode of The AI Minute.

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Transcript:
I think there are five skills which are essential in the 21st century job market which weren’t particularly useful in the 20th century. The first of these is the ability to teach yourself new tasks. It's something we all do and will be required to do on an ongoing basis. In an industrial economy, it wasn't really that useful. You had new tasks come along relatively infrequently and they were taught to you. The second skill is the ability to communicate, broadly speaking through speech, and all the other ways as well. The third skill is writing. In the 20th century industrial economy, we didn't really ever write anything, and now we spend our days writing all the time. So the ability to organize your thoughts and convey them in a clear and concise language is important. The fourth is working in groups, because more and more we form groups to do work and then those groups break up. In the industrial economy, you didn't really have that same sort of dynamic going on. The fifth, and I think the most important skill, is the ability to use technology. Technology in the end is that thing that multiplies what you're able to do.

If your chosen career of the future does not employ technology then you are forever the bottleneck of your own career. You can never double or triple or quadruple your productivity, or if you can it would take an incredibly long time. Those who can deploy technology however have the ability to grow their output to an unlimited level. So when one is contemplating career choices of the future ask yourself where is it that you can deploy the most technology.