PREPARING YOU FOR THE WORKPLACE OF TOMORROW - TODAY
Making the 4th (and 5th!) Industrial Revolution work for you
The world around us is changing, and if you don’t change with it, you will get left behind, writes Jamaine Krige. So, what can you do to prepare yourself for the workplace of the future, today?
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y now, you know that the world you live in isn’t the same world your parents grew up in, and the nature of work is changing rapidly. It can be hard to plan for the future when none of us really knows what that future holds. Even experts who make a career from predicting future trends based on current trends admit that it’s hard to know what we don’t know yet!
A couple of years ago, nobody would have known what you were on about if you said you were an Uber driver, a drone pilot or a blockchain engineer. You would have gotten funny looks if you told someone you were considering a career in virtual reality design, while artificial intelligence (AI) was something from sci-fi movies where machines take over the world. You couldn’t consider a career as a social
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