By Zuko Komisa
There are a lot of anticipated changes in the future, and surprisingly tomorrow might not look the way we imagine.
The British Council reports that up to 65% of today’s kids could end up working in jobs that don’t even exist yet.
Work of the future will undoubtedly demand a different kind of education and training than what is commonly seen now, despite the fact that this figure may be confusing to some.
Kaya Biz with Gugulethu Mfuphi spoke to Sherrie Donaldson, who is the project director at BRICS Future Skills about these findings and how South Africans can start preparing for the anticipated change.
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Donaldson believes the demands placed on businesses for expert assistance shift as technology develops.
She believes companies that provide opportunities in the digital age need people with knowledge in fields like computer programming, data analysis, and coding, all of which call for extensive technical training.
“There are all these new jobs that are emerging, that are offering fantastic careers for you people and older people. having identified what these new jobs are, we need to ask ourselves how we skill young people for these jobs. How we do a whole lot of career guidance to equip parents to consider these new jobs.” says Donaldson
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She also spoke about the BRICS Skills Challenge, which aims to prepare the youth of participating nations for future employment, which will take place in South Africa the next year.
This year it is headed to China and will run from November 1–6; this will be for young people from the BRICS nations between the ages of 16 and 35 who have expertise in robotic process automation, mobile app development, data science, the digital factory, cyber security, and many other fields.
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