NESTA Future of Skills
Likely to grow
Hospitality and leisure medium-skilled blue and white-collar jobs. Their products can be continually re-designed, which supports employment
Educational and welfare professionals and other public sector occupations. They are labor intensive occupations with less potential for automation.
Likely to shrink
Sales, customer service and administration. Threatened by technological advances, such as intelligent personal assistants.
Drivers and other workers in routine-intensive occupations due to self driving cars
Finance, such as bookkeepers and clerks, shopkeepers and proprietors who supervise automation-vulnerable workers. Their tasks may be automated.
21st century skills
Teaching
Co-ordination: adjusting to others’ actions
Monitoring: assessing others’ performance
Providing motivation
Fluency of ideas: coming up with lots of ideas
Originality: deriving novel solutions (originality)
Active learning: understanding new information