How to succeed at jobs that don't exist yet! (Long Branch Free Library - Jan 18, 2022

Christopher Bishop
chief reinvention officer
improvising careers
January 18, 2022
How to succeed at jobs that don’t exist…yet!

• My background
• Socio-historical perspective
• Emerging careers
• New learning models
• Future Career Toolkit
• What’s next?
©2022 Christopher Bishop
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• My background
• What’s next?
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• My background
• What’s next?
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The concept of work has
been constantly
reinvented…
… part of a process
that has been going on
for thousands of years.
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…driven by technology…

“I refuse to issue a patent for fear it will
put my poor subjects out of work.”
Queen Elizabeth I
1589
regarding a
mechanized knitting
machine
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“More people can compete, connect and
collaborate in more ways for less money from
more places than ever before.”
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Thomas Friedman - New York Times journalist,
speaker, author

Many top jobs in 2021 did not exist 5 years ago!
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Autonomous
vehicle
operator
Cryptoasset
strategist
Quantum
algorithm
designer
Vascular tissue
engineer

Many successful companies did not exist 5 years ago!
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Austin Thompson
Starlink Supply Chain Operations
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Patrick Thayer
Bioprinting Solutions Architect
Will Zeng
Head of Quantum Research
Hillary Carter
Managing Director

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U.S. Department of Labor predicts that todays’
learners will have ?? jobs…by age 38.

U.S. Department of Labor predicts that todays’
learners will have 8 - 10 jobs…by age 38!
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Estimates are 85% of the jobs today’s learners will
be doing in 20 years have not been invented yet…
15%
85%
Current Jobs
Non-existent Jobs
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Using technology
that doesn’t
exist… 17

To solve problems we don’t
yet know are problems. 18

• My background
• What’s next?
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What do emerging careers
have in common?
Connect
unlikely
disciplines
Require
old/new
skills
Driven
by tech
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mechanical
engineering
pharmacology
+
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Nanopharmacist
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urban studies mobility
+
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Urban mobility strategist24

law
robotics
+
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Robotic ethicist 26

transportation
artificial
intelligence
+
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Remote logistics manager

hospitality astrophysics
+
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Education is NOT an event that
happened in the past

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Learn…unlearn…relearn

“The future doesn’t care how you
became an expert.”
David Blake
CEO
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“The world only cares about - and pays off on - what
you can do with what you know…and it doesn’t care
how you learned it. This will be true no matter
where you go to work.”
Laszlo Bock,
Former SVP, People Operations
Google
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• My background
• What’s next?
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Future Career Toolkit
1. VOICE - defining your own brand
2. ANTENNA – finding conversations of interest to you
3. MESH – connecting with people who share your interests
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MESH
VOICE ANTENNA

Future Career Tool #1 – VOICE
•OBJECTIVE: Define your “uniqueness”
•What qualities make you stand out?
•What skills and experience make up your personal brand?
Keep in mind: your VOICE will change and evolve over your work life
EXERCISE
• Pick a favorite movie, book, TV show, game – current or from your
childhood
• What do you like about it? Write down 2-3 aspects that you relate to
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FAVORITE TOPIC

Future Career Tool #1 – VOICE
•OBJECTIVE: Define your “uniqueness”
•What qualities make you stand out?
•What skills and experience make up your personal brand?
Keep in mind: your VOICE will change and evolve over your work life
EXERCISE
• Pick a favorite movie, book, TV show, game – current or from your
childhood
• What do you like about it? Write down 2-3 aspects that you relate to
FAVORITE TOPIC
MOVIE - Blade Runner 2049 Future culture, technology
BOOK - MORE: The World Economy
from the Iron Age to the
Information Age-Philip Coggin
Economics, global business
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Future Career Tool #2 – ANTENNA
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• Research 1-2 sources for each VOICE topic
• Pick a range of sources, media, channels
• Assign a frequency – how often will you check?
Tracking culture, business, society, politics, technology
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Voice
attribute
Source Description Frequency

• Research 1-2 sources for topics from VOICE exercise
• Pick a range of sources, media, channels
• Assign a frequency – how often will you check?
Tracking culture, business, society, politics, technology
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Voice
attribute
Source Description Frequency
Future
culture
Futurism Newsletter, Web site Daily
The Futures
Agency
Webinars Periodically
Tech Silicon Valley
Business Journal
Newsletters
Print newspaper
Twice a day
Weekly
BBC Click YouTube, Twitter Weekly, twice a day
Global
business
Bloomberg Tech TV show Weekly
Espresso
(Economist)
App Twice daily

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Future Career Tool #3 - MESH

Future Career Tool #3 - MESH
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Voice attribute Name Role Company
Future culture Gerd Leonhardt CEO Futures Agency
Tech Krysta Svore GM, Quantum Software Microsoft
Global business Thomas Malone Professor, author MIT Sloan
• Using criteria defined in the VOICE exercise, search on LinkedIn for
people and groups in your areas of interest
• Pick 1 to 3 people to “Connect“ with based on shared interest
• Find one group to join based on your topic
• Do it again next week!
PEOPLE
GROUP
Future culture Institute for the
Future
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2359154/

• My background
• What’s next?
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• VOICE continually reflect on what makes you unique –
know that it will evolve
• ANTENNA be diligent about monitoring information
sources and finding new ones
• MESH add five people a week to your profile – reach
for them when you are ready to move to your next job
Putting it all together…
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See you in the future…
chris@improvisingcareers.com
linkedin.com/in/christopherbishop123/
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