Presentation " Future job trends in Canada and globally"

1. Toronto, October 2017
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2. XXI Century Trends:
Economic
From national to global economies
From manufacturing to knowledge
creation
From hierarchical to flat organizations
From mass-production to
customization
Information
Exponential growth in information
New ways of handling information
New forms of information
From face-to-face to virtual
communication
Social
Growing diversity
Growing population
Multiple careers
Changing lifestyles
Aging
Major
Challenges
Climate change
Environmental degradation
Persistent poverty
Energy needs

3. The world we live in
Access to Everything, All the Time, From Any Device, Anywhere
• Knowledge-intensive and innovation-led globalized world
• Everyone competes with everyone, self-branding on the rise
• The less competent are replaced by those who, in other parts of the world,
can do the same for less
• The rate of change of the economy requires creative and differentiated
workforce
• The ability to create value, with creativity and competence, becomes
essential for survival in the labor market
But the uniformity of school systems produces almost undifferentiated workforce
Theme 1) The training ecosystem will evolve, with a mix of innovation in all education
formats
Theme 2) Learners must cultivate 21st-century skills, capabilities and attributes: Tough-
to-teach intangibles such as emotional intelligence, curiosity, creativity, adaptability,
resilience and critical thinking will be most highly valued
Theme 3) New credentialing systems will arise as self directed learning expands

4. In 2015 one minute

5. Right - Left
two hemispheres - two approaches
Success is power in both
•Sequential
•Specializes in text
•Analyzes detail
•Logic
•Mathematics
•Processing of
information
•Organization
• Simultaneous
• Specializes in context
• Synthesizes the big
picture
• Intuition
• Emotions
• Visual
• Relational
• Creativity
• Playfulness
Cognitive Science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.
It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition. Wikipedia
CS is the interdisciplinary study of intelligence in humans and machines. It encompasses
work done in computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology.

7. The Knowledge Era = present
This was the age of the knowledge
worker. The activities that brought us
success were centered on the left-brain:
sequential, contextual, detailed –
oriented , liner, analytical and
focused on “hard” facts
The Conceptual Era =future.
The rise in significance of right-brain
thinking. Creativity, context, the “big-
picture”, pattern recognition, empathy,
design and soft-skills are more
important than simply knowing and
applying
CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCY, ability
to operate in diverse cultural settings
VIRTUAL COLLABORATION, ability to
work, drive engagement, and
demonstrate presence as a member of a
virtual team.
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE, ability to
participate in the collective construction
of solutions
SOCIAL MEDIA LITERACY, ability to
critically use social media as instruments
of empowerment and transformation
SENSE-MAKING, ability to determine
the deeper meanings and the courses
of action to act in complex situations
COMPUTATIONAL THINKING, ability
to translate aggregates of data into
abstract concepts and conduct
data-based reasoning
COGNITIVE LOAD MANAGEMENT,
ability to discriminate and filter the
information needed to produce
successful solutions
TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, ability
to reason and build knowledge
across multiple disciplines
DESIGN MIND-SET, ability to create
solutions in contexts where only part
of the requirements are known
ADAPTIVE THINKING, ability to
think and act in ways that transcend
the rote and rule-based

8. General trends in job market
• Investing in STEM. In the ten countries we looked at, science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) skills made up the majority of our top 25 list.
While most of these could be labeled as “tech” skills, more traditional STEM
skills like mechanical, electrical, and materials engineering made our list in
many countries.
• Data. Data everywhere. We live in an increasingly data driven world, and
businesses are aggressively hiring experts in data storage, retrieval, and
analysis. Across the globe, statistics and data analysis skills were highly
valued. In the US, India, and France, cloud and distributed сomputing skills
were in particularly high demand.
• It pays to know a second language. Internationalization and localization
services are valued by companies that operate globally. As such, language
translation skills were among the top 25 hottest skills in many countries. But
nowhere did they rank higher than in the United States, where in 2010,
according to US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, only 18% of
Americans claim to speak a language other than English.
• Rise of the technical marketer. In 2012, Gartner analyst Laura McLellan
predicted that by 2017 CMO’s would be spending more on technology than
their CIO colleagues. With digital, online, and SEO (search engine
optimization) marketing skills in our global top 25 this year, there’s strong
evidence that this prediction may be coming true

9. Trends at job market
The labour gap is not unique to Canada. The European Commission, for example, anticipates a shortfall of
around 825,000 ICT positions by 2020.10 A report from the United States Department of Labour forecasts
there will be 1.4 million computer specialist job openings by 2020 — but, universities are unlikely to produce
enough qualified graduates to fill even a third of these positions.

10. Hottest Skills of
2015 on LinkedIn

14. 5 occupations will be in strong demand
Information System Analysts & Consultant s
Computer Programmers & Interactive Media Developers
Computer & Information System Managers
Software Engineers & Designers
Graphic Designers & Illustrators

16. Validation of In-Demand Careers
in Toronto as of Nov 2014
The Centre of Excellence in Financial Services Education (CoE) consults with financial
services employers of the Toronto region to determine the careers for which there is high
need for talent across the sector. Based on the in-demand talent needs of the sector, the
CoE liaises with educators and professional associations on an ongoing basis to ensure that
the focus and quality of education programs are aligned to the needs of the sector.

17. Big Data ‘ You torture the data until it is confess ‘

18. Most Valuable Business Skills in 2016

19. Most valuable COMPUTER SCIENCE Skills

22. 47%
Oxford researchers calculate this is the
percentage of American employment that
is at risk because of the expected impacts of
computerization in the foreseeable future
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
Automation, robots, artificial intelligence are taking
over workers’ traditional tasks
50%
McKinsey analysts estimate this is the share of
activities workers are paid to do now that could be
automated using currently available technologies
– accounting for $15 trillion in wages
https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/digital-disruption/harnessing-automation-for-a-
future-that-works
//
45 years
The timeframe estimated by artificial intelligence experts when “high level machine
intelligence” – unaided machines that can accomplish any given task better and more
cheaply than humans – will be developed
- 2024: outperform language translators - 2027: drive a truck - 2031 : work in retail - 2049: write best selling book - 2053: a surgeon
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.08807.pdf

24. Youth unemployment in EU

28. Why the modern world is bad for your brain ?
• We are doing the jobs of 10 different
people while still trying to keep up with
our lives, our children and parents,
our friends, our careers, our hobbies,
and our favorite TV shows
• When people think they’re multitasking,
they’re actually just switching from one
task to another very rapidly. And every
time they do, there’s a cognitive cost in
doing so.
• Multitasking creates a dopamine-
addiction feedback loop, effectively
rewarding the brain for losing focus and
for constantly searching for external
stimulation. To make matters worse, the
prefrontal cortex has a novelty bias,
meaning that its attention can be easily
hijacked by something new
• Glenn Wilson, former visiting professor
of psychology at Gresham College,
London, calls it info-mania

29. • Child born in 2012 would need to pay $ 140,000 in 4 years for
university education: tuition fee, campus and text books are included
• Around 450 000 graduates in Canada and in 2012-2013 more then
400 000 student took a credit
• 78 % students have to work to afford to pay for their university education and
more then 39% are working 11-20 hours per week
• Average debt for Canadian graduate is $27,000, from which 43 % is getting
money from government , 18% from parents, the rest is from FI
• 85% students are applied to full time university program and
15 % applied to part time in 2014
• Cost of university education in Canada going to grow by 8.6% in next 4 years
Facts about University education in Canada

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31. Ikigai (生き甲斐, pronounced [ikiɡai]) is a Japanese concept meaning
"a reason for being". Everyone, according to the Japanese, has an
Ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self.

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educational intelligence in XXI century.
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Our design is to develop a personalized learning path,
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that will lead towards a successful international career
and personal satisfaction

33. No one knows for certain what the
future can bring, but without vision,
how can we achieve our dreams?
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