Is technology slowly trying to steal your job?

It is said that if you are conducting commerce now, you better be providing more value than simply acting as a venue for a transaction.

The same rules apply to your job.

If you find yourself in a very common job mandate, you better be acquiring additional tools for your toolbox, or at the very least, making sure that the few tools that you have are extremely sharp.

Because of technology, the once common term of “unskilled labour” is now branching out into many new areas which were once considered areas of “skilled labour.”

A new report released by McKinsey & Company indicates that by 2030, as many as 800 million workers worldwide could be replaced at work by robots.

Think about that.

We are not just talking about manufacturing jobs which the U.S. seems focused on creating or even bringing back to America despite the costs to accomplish this goal, we are talking about all types of jobs from bookkeepers to paralegals, to every kind of administrator under the sun.

Bill Gates believes that people with three backgrounds will be the most in-demand from this point going forward.

Science, engineering and economics. Unfortunately for North Americans, they are no longer world leaders in the first two mentioned.

Decades of government spending to fuel self-defence and other initiatives has hurt the sciences, while lower salary ceilings for the second, pushed a lot of those strong minds into areas like finance.

The study found that for advanced economies like the U.S. and Germany, up to one-third of the 2030 workforce may need to learn new skills and find new work.

If you feel that you are working in an area which is too executional, it is important to shift to tasks that provide more value to your employer and more marketability for you.

You may even need to stretch yourself or even create a new job description for yourself. (as long as you are also able to deliver what your company expects)

Human performance can NOT be matched by a machine if you have strengths in the following areas.

1.

-managing people

2.

-applying expertise

3.

-social interaction will still be necessary

Position yourself accordingly.

Farewell,

Mike