Future of Work and Workforce:

Preparing Ourselves for Unknown

Jobs in the Future

Asia Pacific Career Development Association, Webinar, 20th April

Dr. Gog Soon Joo

Chief Skills Officer and Chief Futurist

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Enable individuals to learn for life, pursue

skills mastery and develop fulfilling

careers , for a future-ready Singapore

Chief FuturistChief Research Officer

Chief Skills Officer

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Changing notion

of Work &

Employment

The Future of

Work in the

New Economy

Lifelong

Learning-Career

Guidance

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Are we expecting to see changes in the post-covid era?

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75?shareType=nongift

• Policies • operational strategies • Consumer behaviour

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Source: Willenius, M. (2017). Patterns of the future: Understanding the next wave of global change. World Scientific. P. 35

The wave of change has intensified

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Source: Peter Diamondis & Steven Kotler. (2012). Abundance: The future is

better than you think. Free Press.

Exponential technologies create opportunities for new business models & demands; we disrupt or be disrupted

Source: Friedman, T. (2016). Thank you for being late. Picador.

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Our intangible assets (job roles, work functions, skills,

knowledge & ability) and careers

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We need advanced methodology to continuously monitor the

changing job content and skills to support decision making

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Changing notion

of Work &

Employment

The Future of

Work in the

New Economy

Lifelong

Learning-Career

Guidance

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Changing notion of work and income

#mariekondo #alanwalker

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The rise of the Gig / Sharing Economy

The gig economy is not new – people have always worked gigs… but today when most people refer to the “gig economy, they’re specifically talking about new technology-enabled kinds of work.

- Molly Turner, Lecturer, Hass School of Business, University of California Berkeley and the former Director of Public Policy for Airbnb

Source: The Rise of the Gig Economy in the US, Statista, 2019

Jobs-Skills Insights for All aims provide dynamic jobs-skills data, insights

and tools to support stakeholders’ decision-making

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4B – The total talent Approach

Business Competitiveness Skill and Talent Needs

Strategy

Implementation

BUY BORROWBUILD BOT

Drivers

Business acquisition

Top talent hunting

In-house R&D

IP development & filing

Corporate education and

training

Network partnership

Outsourcing

Gig work

Human-machine

augmentation

Trends

Trans-boundary;

High-skilled & low-wage

Expansive Work

Arrangements

Upstream Talent Pipeline

Future Workforce

Solution Tools

Jobs-Skills Insights and Data

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Changing notion

of Work &

Employment

The Future of

Work in the

New Economy

Lifelong

Learning-Career

Guidance

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Do we need Learning-Career Guidance throughout

life-stages?

As we live longer, it is time to reconsider how to lead a multi-stage life and the kinds of assets we’d need to live well.

Source: Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott – The 100-Year Life

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What about a Career and Learning GPS?

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What kind of attitude & capability do we need to thrive?

Vs.

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What kind of ‘development’ should we offer?

Careers? Confident? Purpose?

“The future of work raises exciting and troubling questions that often have little to do with economics: questions about the nature of intelligence, about inequality and why it matters, about the political power of larger tech companies, about what it means to live a meaningful life, about how we might live together in a world that looks very different from the one in which we have grown up.”

Source: Sussman, D. (2020). A World without Work: Technology, Automation and

How We Should Respond.

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a. Should we revisit the concept of

career-capital?

b. Should we explore the dual-career

track of learning and working?

c. To what extend, the ‘purpose’ of life

is worth developing?

d. Who are offering learning-career

guidance?

For Discussion

Thank You