Robots have replaced humans in the assembly line jobs in order to achieve the precision required in these jobs and also to eliminate human fatigue because of the long monotonous working hours. Managers, whose job is to administer their team members like supervising their work and approving their leaves, are losing their jobs to sophisticated and user friendly data management software.
You are living in an era which is fast changing because of numerous technological innovations. Wherever possible, you have to make way for automation, a step which might be a very costly affair at the beginning but very cost effective in the long run because of eliminating the cost of human error.
You need to live in this era with an open mind in order to keep learning from others. Your teacher or trainer might be half of your age or younger, you need to respect his knowledge and acknowledge his superiority in the domain knowledge that you plan to have.
You need to finish your work on time and also leave your office on time on the working days to be able to make time to learn something new and also to have adequate personal time for work-life balance.
Work-life balance can help you have a good personal life. You can give your best to your professional life only when you have a good personal life. So before you give your best to your professional life, give your best to your personal life.
Learning new things very often will help you to have a mindset that confesses that everyone cannot know everything in one lifetime. This mindset will help you stay grounded and keep getting better by learning from others.
Though this fast changing technological age has taken away jobs from humans, it has also brought new opportunities that did not exist before. Since late twentieth century, the ever increasing number of software engineers is a testimony to this philosophy.
So let us now discuss that how you can prepare yourself to benefit from the various opportunities that this fast changing technological age has in store for you.
1. Soft Skills
In order to grab the professional opportunities of this technological age, you may plan to take up some professional courses to get ready for employment but before doing so, you need to work on your soft skills which would help you to build good relationships wherever you work. Whether you are employed or self-employed, you need great relationship with your colleagues and customers in order to get their support to do well in your profession, so you cannot ignore the importance of soft skills even if you have great domain knowledge.
If you have good soft skills, you will always find people helping you. Having good soft skills also means that you have an attitude to learn, which makes you employable even if you have a little less domain knowledge than required.
2. Personal Branding
Your resume is going to be outdated soon, as employers around the world are looking for smart people who are smart enough to showcase their work and personal life in a way that fits into their organisational vision.
Having your Linkedin, Facebook profiles help potential employers to know your professional and personal lives better.
This fast changing technological age is rapidly linking all the parts of the world digitally. Boundaries of your country cannot prevent you from getting a job abroad. You might be a citizen of a country which has the smallest economy of the world but if you are smart enough to showcase your work and image in a way that gets the attention of potential employers, then you can get an opportunity to work in a company which belongs to a country which has one of the top economies of the world.
If you are a student or a professional or a home maker or self-employed or belong to any profession, having your own website to showcase your work and image will help you propel your career and earnings, as you can get more and more people including the potential employers and buyers visit your website through digital marketing techniques. In case your situation demands that you need to be very cost sensitive, then you can also find numerous methods on internet to set up your free website in order to promote your own image or your organization or any other product all over the world digitally.
Your objective in this digital world needs to be to reach maximum number of people in order to get your desired employment or business.
3. Digital Marketing
You are in a world in which, boundaries of the countries do not matter anymore in order to get connected with anyone in any part of the world digitally.
It does not matter what you do, you need to promote yourself, your product, your organization digitally in order to get maximum returns.
Organizations have come to realize the importance of digital marketing, so they encourage their employees in all departments to promote their products and services on Linkedin, Facebook and other social networking sites, which is a part of digital marketing.
It is absolutely fine, if you do not like to sell anything but you still need to learn digital marketing because digital marketing means promoting your own image or your organization or any other product digitally and making maximum number of people aware of it. Awareness will ultimately lead to interest and then to sale, which is the interest of most of the organizations.
Hence, Digital Marketing has now become something like a survival technique that everyone needs to learn in order to propel career and earning in this digital world.
4. Technology-based specializations that can guarantee jobs
i. Cloud computing
As data is the new fuel of this age, every company whether small or big needs to manage its data through cost effective remote servers instead of expensive local servers. So a course in cloud computing is a wise option for a long promising career.
ii. Software development and analysis
Most countries are doing their best to uplift the living standard of their people by encouraging economic activity. Hence, companies need Software developers, software analysts and software engineers to create software applications and products for their customers. You can certainly have a long promising professional journey in this field.
iii. Cyber security
Every organization needs to protect its computer systems and networks from information leakage, theft and damage. So there will always be a demand for professionals who are specialists in cyber security.
iv. Risk analysis
Companies like investment firms, banks, insurance companies, etc., need ‘Risk analysts’ to check with financial risks and reduce unnecessary costs incurred. So you will always find a demand for ‘Risk analysts’.
v. Artificial Intelligence
Organizations are trying their best to automate the processes that typically require human intelligence in order to achieve operational efficiency and cost effectiveness. Hence as a specialist in this field, you will always find demand for your services.
vi. Machine Learning
Companies need ‘Machine Learning specialists’ to develop algorithms to analyse data and make predictions in order to reinvent business models. Hence, specializing in machine learning can reward you with a great career.
vii. Data analysis and Data science
Organizations need ‘Data analysts’ and ‘Data scientists’ to analyze data and gain actionable insights to make business decisions. So it will be a wise decision to specialize in data analysis or data science in order to have a great career.
viii. IOT (Internet of Things)
An IOT specialist can connect anything to the internet and make things smarter by enabling the flow of information.
So organizations need IOT specialists to transform their business and people’s lives.
Roles in IOT architecture and analysis are set to witness a great leap in the coming years.
ix. Automation/ Robotic Process Automation
Organizations are doing their best to make their processes automated in order to achieve operational efficiency and cost effectiveness. Therefore, organizations have a demand for ‘Robotic Process Automation’ developers and ‘Automation Engineers’.
x. Digital Banking and Fintech
Digital banking is a step up from the traditional banking system to digital channels such as online, social and mobile. Whereas, Fintech is a broad category that refers to the innovative use of technologies, products, and business models in the delivery process of financial services and products. Crypto-currency and chat bot explaining the insurance policy are two examples of Fintech.
Specialists in these fields will find a demand for their services, as they can help the companies in BFSI (Banking, financial services and insurance) industry to bridge the technological gaps.
xi. UI (User Interface) and UX (User Experience) product design
User interface design is all about how the product’s interfaces look and function, whereas User experience design is all about the overall feel of the interaction that the user has with a product or service.
As consumers keep looking for user friendly digital products like websites, applications and other interactive devices, specialists in these fields will always find a demand for their services because they can leverage their skills to create innovative solutions for common problems.
xii. Business Intelligence
A ‘Business intelligence’ analyst is responsible to develop a comprehensive understanding of business processes, production systems and databases, which forms one of the cores of any business.
Hence, companies will have a demand for ‘Business Intelligence’ specialists, as they can help their managers, executives and departments to make intelligent business decisions.
This fast changing technological age is on a spree to convert our personal interactions into digital interactions, which has its pros and cons. Though the common processes like bill payments ,loan approvals have become faster because of digital processes, you tend to miss the human touch. But considering that this is going to be the norm of life ahead, do your best to make those digital interactions as humane as possible in order to get the best out of your personal and professional life.
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