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1. What might Canadian workplaces look like in 10 years time?
CAREERS: Fast Forward

2. Learning Goals:
• Identify and describe various trends that influence changes in the labour market
• Describe the relationship between the invention/innovation and changes in the
labour market
• Describe how economic trends influence changes in the labour market
• Describe how demographic trends influence changes in the labour market
• Describe how trends in emerging technologies influence changes in the labour
market
• Describe how political trends influence changes in the labour market
• Describe how careers you are interested in will likely change in the future

3. • Economic forecasts
• Demographics
• Emerging technologies
• New policies and rules
• Change (environment, laws,
energy, communication…)
• Necessity is the mother of
invention
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A FORTUNE TELLER TO
SEE THE FUTURE…

4. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

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6. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

7. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

8. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

9. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

10. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

11. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

12. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

13. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

14. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

15. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

16. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

17. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

18. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

19. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

20. What does all this invention
mean?
Change is CONSTANTHow do we
predict what
changes are
coming?

21. • Historical performance
• Known information
• Current market conditions
• Employment figures
• Education and training numbers
• Calculations for possibilities
• Examples of similar circumstances
Similarly, how do you know what an
athlete will do in an upcoming season?
ECONOMIC FORECASTS

22. • Demography:
• Demos = people
• Graphy = to define, record
• Understanding of a population
• Changing needs based on age
• Changing workforce based on age
• Changes in population = changes
in tax revenue, customers, etc.
DEMOGRAPHICS

23. • New technologies create new
markets
• New technologies change existing
markets
• New technologies enhance human
abilities
• New technologies outdate older
technology, including human
labour
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

24. • The legal power to change the
workplace
• In response to change and events
• Regulate:
• Work
• Wages
• Procedures
• Economics
• Demographics
• Environmental impact
• Markets and opportunities
NEW POLICIES/LAWS

25. • Economics change
• Demographics change
• Technologies change
• Policies and rules change
• Education requirements change
• Opportunities change
• Ideals change
• You change
CHANGE IS CONSTANT

29. • Read the articles
• List and think about examples of:
• Economic forecasting
• Demographic change
• Emerging technologies
• New policies and rules
• Any other form of change
• What have you noticed about the jobs
of the future?
• Create a statement that reflects what
you have learned.
READING Assignment

30. • Combine what you have learned
today with the list of jobs that you are
interested in and…
• Draw or write about what the future
version of jobs you are interested in.
Think about:
• Economic conditions
• Demographic conditions
• New technologies
• New policies or rules
• Other changes
IMAGINING THE FUTURE:

31. Learning Goals:
• Identify and describe various trends that influence changes in the labour market
• Describe the relationship between the invention/innovation and changes in the
labour market
• Describe how economic trends influence changes in the labour market
• Describe how demographic trends influence changes in the labour market
• Describe how trends in emerging technologies influence changes in the labour
market
• Describe how political trends influence changes in the labour market
• Describe how careers you are interested in will likely change in the future