This document describes a 4-day online training course on career guidance and the challenges of future labor markets in Europe. It discusses how jobs will change significantly due to factors like automation, reskilling needs, and new technologies. Important skills for the future include STEAM fields, healthcare, green jobs, and skills like teaching and entrepreneurship. Blended learning approaches that combine online and in-person training are recommended. Maintaining skills through constant learning is the best strategy to stay employable, rather than waiting to see how jobs change.

1. FUTURE JOB
ACADEMIA 2021 / DE, PT, LUX, UK
Counsellors’ Study and Training Exchange
Programme for Key Challenges of European
Labour Markets and Societies
9 - 18.3.2021

2. 4 DAY ONLINE TRAINING COURSE
more than 80 career guidance professionals
from all over Europe
Terje Laur´s mission supporters:
Euroguidance Estonia
The Association of Estonian Career Counsellors

3. THE MAIN MESSAGE
The future is already here
The time for reskilling is now
"WHEN THE WIND OF CHANGE BLOWS,
SOME BUILD PROTECTIVE WALLS, OTHERS BUILD WINDMILLS“
- CHINESE PROVERB -

4. INDUSTRY 4.0 AND THE
IMPACT ON LABOUR
 47%of work tasks will be automated
 40%of workers’ core skills are going to
change
 50%of all employees will need reskilling
Find out if your job is at risk:
https://job-futuromat.iab.de/en/
The World Economic
Forum, by 2025

5. THE MAIN DRIVERS OF CHANGE
TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL
TRANSFORMATIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL

7. WHAT DOES THE
FUTURE
WORKPLACE
LOOK LIKE?
Global, diverse, aging
More autonomy, less routine
More ICT, less physical effort
Increased social and intellectual tasks
Agile workforce - gig economy, work-life integration

8. SHIFT TOWARDS
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
24 million new jobs will be
created globally by 2030 (ILO):
Renewable energy sources (solar,
hydro, wind, ocean, geothermal,
biofuels)
Clean technologies
Resource and energy efficiency
Waste and water management
Recycling, repair and rental services
Natural materials and products
Environmentally friendly lifestyle
(electric cars, passive houses,
sustainable agriculture, organic food,
natural cosmetics…)

9. WHERE TO START?
WHAT IS THE BEST
STRATEGY?
BE ONE STEP AHEAD
KEEP LEARNING AND CONSTANCTLY
RE-SKILL
What is the least effective
strategy?
Keep calm, wait to see
what will happen and
then decide how to adapt,
because not all jobs will be
replaced by robots

10. WANTED!
✓ Tech talents, STEAM professionals
✓ Personal and health care staff
✓ Green jobs
✓ Teachers, trainers, coaches
✓ Skilled traders (electricians, welders, mechanics, etc.)
✓ Sales representatives
✓ Customer support
✓ Entrepreneurs/ social innovators
✓ Low-skilled staff, whose job cannot be automated

11. NEW TRENDS IN LEARNING AND
DEVELOPMENT
 Adaptive/AI/Machine/Immersive and other learning technologies
 UX design and user-generated content (UGC)
 Analytics for student success
 Open Educational Resources (OER)
 Microlearning
 Mobile Learning
 Video-Based Learning
 Gamification and Game-Based Learning
 Certification
 Geofencing
 Coaching through Chat Bots
 Digital twins

12. WHEN IT COMES TO THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY,
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE RIGHT MIX: BLENDED LEARNING
On-the-job training
(hands-on, project
based, also in online)
Live Online Trainings
(Webinars)
Self-Guided
E-Learning
Combination of
presence and e-
learning parts
(blended learning)
Training in presence
with the possibility to
join digital
(hybrid learning)
Use of augmented or
virtual reality tools
Virtual classrooms
E-Assessment
Electronic exams
Peer review and
peer assessment
Knowledge
Management/Wikis
Storytelling and
Iconografic Turn
(good pictures, videos
and explanatory
graphics)
Voting tools, ratings
and evaluation
Network and
community building
Open Educational
Resources
Massive open online
Course (MOOC)

13. COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT
IS MORE THAN TRAINING
Briefing
Time for practical
experience
Free space for
practical testing,
experiments
Collaboration with
experienced
colleagues
External further
education, training,
external certifications
Project work,
collaboration, partial
responsibility or
management
Participation in
strategy workshops
Job shadowing, job
rotation, vacation
replacement
Expert meetings,
discussion, exchange
of experience among
colleagues
Assignment of special
tasks (deputization,
sponsorship, training)
Trade fair, customer
and supplier visit
Collaboration in audit
Inclusion in talent
pool, workshops,
mentoring, etc
Coaching

14. FURTHER
READING
 Competition in Labour Markets (OECD)
• http://www.oecd.org/daf/competition/competition-in-labour-markets-2020.pdf
 A Future-Looking Agenda for Career Guidance – Preparing Young
People for Future Jobs through Innovative Career Services. Policy
roadmap report. (Future Time Traveller)
• https://future-time-traveller.eu/products/
 Digital labour platforms and the future of work (ILO)
• https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---
publ/documents/publication/wcms_645337.pdf
 Executive Summary. The future of jobs (WEF)
• http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOJ_Executive_Summary_Jobs.pdf
 Workforce of the future. The competing forces shaping 2030
(PWC)
• https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/services/people-
organisation/publications/workforce-of-the-future.html

15. WHO CAN TELL
THE FUTURE?
 https://skillspanorama.cedefop.europa.eu/en
 https://www.weforum.org/projects/future-of-
work
 http://www.oecd.org/future-of-work/
 https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/future-of-
work/lang--en/index.htm
 https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-
insights/future-of-work
 https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history
/herman/reports/futurework/report.htm

16. THANK YOU!
TERJE LAUR
EXECUTIVE COACH I CAREER COACH
LAUR & PARTNERS CONSULTING OÜ
WWW.LAURCONSULTING.EE