The document discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the adoption of digital technologies and the need for workers to learn new skills to remain employable. It notes that future jobs will require skills in areas like creativity, innovation, technology like machine learning, and specific technical skills depending on the field. The speaker providing an overview of their background working in research and developing programs to help develop industry-relevant skills for the future of work.

2. Are You Ready for Jobs of the Future?
• COVID-19 pandemic has escalated and will continue to accelerate the
adoption of digital technology from retail to healthcare to how we work
and learn.
• Existing workforce must re-skill themselves with the new skills required
to ensure them in the job market over these few years and more.
• Young talents and soon to graduate talents from colleges and schools
are even more pressed to learn and master these future skills to make
themselves more resilient, adaptable and marketable.
• Where are the jobs over the next few years? What is going away? And
what should a person be reading about?

3. Setting the Scene
• With COVID-19 continue to affect
of lives either at home, at work or
at school / university – many things
that we do in pre-COVID era have
changed.
• What changes in how we live our
lives, work, schooling, interact
socially etc.?
• Groceries, food even medicine are
delivered to you
• We continue our work mostly from the
comfort of our own home
• Our kids and teachers are engaging
through online classroom

4. Few Changing Trends in Industry
• Foods are served using service robots
• Manufacturing assembly and quality assurance are
assisted by robots
• Drones are used to map and spray pesticides to plants

9. Harvesting from 5-7 years old palm tree

10. Harvesting from 10+ years old palm tree

11. Increasing difficulty and complexity as the palm trees
grow to 15-25 years old

12. Plantation companies
are adopting
automation and robotics
to address on processes
and productivity
challenges, foreign labor
resources constraint.
Skills not typically
associated with farming
are now necessary to
address challenges in
plantation sector.
Sime
Darby
Plantation
Innovation
Open Day
2022

14. Fruit harvesting is one of most
resource heavy activity in farming.
Innovations
needed.

15. What must be innovated here?

16. Future of Work:
What are the skills required?
Source: Vitrox
Job Roles
/ Skills
Manufacturing & Testing
Equipment
Monitoring & Predictive
Maintenance
Machine & Equipment
Automation
Hardware
• Optics Design
• HPCC / GPU Technology
• Sensor & Measurement
Technology
• HPCC / GPU Technology
• Mechanical Design
• MEA, DOE, DFMA
Software
• Machine Vision
• VHDL, FPGA, ARM
• Statistics
• Big Data Analytics
• Deep Learning
• Machine Control
• Software Programming
• Simulation
Electrical &
Electronics
• Embedded Electronic
System Design
• Industrial IoT • Circuit Design
• PCB Design

17. • The World Economic Forum’s Future
of Jobs Report 2020 published top
skills for the population to acquire to
ensure job and employment
sustainability.
• Starts with learning – one need to
continue learn new skills, adopt and
adapt in the new environment.
• The method of learning changes
dramatically.
• Classrooms are empty. Our homes are
now our offices and classrooms for
the children.
• What are the changes made by
educators, trainers to ensure similar
level of understanding and mastering
of the topics being taught?

18. • 4 of top 5 skills for 2025 are
related to creativity and
innovation
• While these skills have been listed
for few years, it is double
challenges for existing workforce
and fresh talents to develop these
skills.
• With limited or no face-to-face
engagement or event, how do one
plan to learn and acquire these
skills?
• With new jobs or internships are
limited, what are new approaches
to learn, acquire and showcase
mastery of these skills?

19. • The 3rd group of skills are hard
skills of specific technology –
ability to understand and use
specific technology i.e. in
monitoring and control of
processes, automating mundane
routine processes with
programmable machines and
robots.
• Another key skill is designing a
product or solution using specific
technology, typically coupled with
programming (or coding) skills to
monitor, control, autonomous
processes and digitally accessible
from remote or far locations.
• What are the specific
technologies, design areas and
programming languages you need
to master?

20. What will the future of
jobs be like?

21. About the
speaker
• Current role focuses on open innovation and collaborative research
& development (R&D) platform to promote innovation and growth
in targeted clusters within Electrical and Electronic sector and
enabling growth in relevant sectors leveraging the technology and
expertise of E&E sector ecosystem partners.
• Leads key programs namely Collaborative R&D Grant, The Great
Lab Academy Industry-Relevant Talent Development program and
recent initiatives in Johor.
• 6 years in Motorola Solutions Penang Design Center à Chief of
Staff of senior leadership team initiating and driving strategic
initiatives, in addition to leading mechanical design and
advanced technology development team of more than 150
engineers and managers.
• Initial 3 years in industry with Motorola Semiconductors since
1995 as materials engineers, followed by 7 years as R&D Manager
at previously a UCB Chemicals Sdn Bhd, a Belgium MNC -
established and led a research and development team in developing
and commercializing specialty polymers for photoresist in PCB
and color display fabrication.
• Received his BSc, MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering at
University of Rhode Island, in the US, specializing in materials and
corrosion engineering (from 1988-1994).

22. http://my.linkedin.com/in/norazmialias/
CREST R&D Talent Development
norazmialias@crest.my
+60-12-308-5891