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Future of Work and Workforce:
Preparing Ourselves for Unknown
Jobs in the Future
Asia Pacific Career Development Association, Webinar, 20th April
Dr. Gog Soon Joo
Chief Skills Officer and Chief Futurist
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Enable individuals to learn for life, pursue
skills mastery and develop fulfilling
careers , for a future-ready Singapore
Chief FuturistChief Research Officer
Chief Skills Officer
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Changing notion
of Work &
Employment
The Future of
Work in the
New Economy
Lifelong
Learning-Career
Guidance
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Are we expecting to see changes in the post-covid era?
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75?shareType=nongift
• Policies • operational strategies • Consumer behaviour
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Source: Willenius, M. (2017). Patterns of the future: Understanding the next wave of global change. World Scientific. P. 35
The wave of change has intensified
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Source: Peter Diamondis & Steven Kotler. (2012). Abundance: The future is
better than you think. Free Press.
Exponential technologies create opportunities for new business models & demands; we disrupt or be disrupted
Source: Friedman, T. (2016). Thank you for being late. Picador.
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Our intangible assets (job roles, work functions, skills,
knowledge & ability) and careers
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We need advanced methodology to continuously monitor the
changing job content and skills to support decision making
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Changing notion
of Work &
Employment
The Future of
Work in the
New Economy
Lifelong
Learning-Career
Guidance
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Changing notion of work and income
#mariekondo #alanwalker
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The rise of the Gig / Sharing Economy
The gig economy is not new – people have always worked gigs… but today when most people refer to the “gig economy, they’re specifically talking about new technology-enabled kinds of work.
- Molly Turner, Lecturer, Hass School of Business, University of California Berkeley and the former Director of Public Policy for Airbnb
Source: The Rise of the Gig Economy in the US, Statista, 2019
Jobs-Skills Insights for All aims provide dynamic jobs-skills data, insights
and tools to support stakeholders’ decision-making
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4B – The total talent Approach
Business Competitiveness Skill and Talent Needs
Strategy
Implementation
BUY BORROWBUILD BOT
Drivers
Business acquisition
Top talent hunting
In-house R&D
IP development & filing
Corporate education and
training
Network partnership
Outsourcing
Gig work
Human-machine
augmentation
Trends
Trans-boundary;
High-skilled & low-wage
Expansive Work
Arrangements
Upstream Talent Pipeline
Future Workforce
Solution Tools
Jobs-Skills Insights and Data
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Changing notion
of Work &
Employment
The Future of
Work in the
New Economy
Lifelong
Learning-Career
Guidance
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Do we need Learning-Career Guidance throughout
life-stages?
As we live longer, it is time to reconsider how to lead a multi-stage life and the kinds of assets we’d need to live well.
Source: Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott – The 100-Year Life
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What about a Career and Learning GPS?
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What kind of attitude & capability do we need to thrive?
Vs.
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What kind of ‘development’ should we offer?
Careers? Confident? Purpose?
“The future of work raises exciting and troubling questions that often have little to do with economics: questions about the nature of intelligence, about inequality and why it matters, about the political power of larger tech companies, about what it means to live a meaningful life, about how we might live together in a world that looks very different from the one in which we have grown up.”
Source: Sussman, D. (2020). A World without Work: Technology, Automation and
How We Should Respond.
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a. Should we revisit the concept of
career-capital?
b. Should we explore the dual-career
track of learning and working?
c. To what extend, the ‘purpose’ of life
is worth developing?
d. Who are offering learning-career
guidance?
For Discussion
Thank You