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In order to be ready for jobs like data scientist, digital artist and waste data managers, there is need to acquire certain skillsets, says Dr Prashant Bhalla

According to a 2016 report by the World Economic Forum, by one trendy evaluation, 65 per cent of children entering primary school these days will end up functioning in entirely new job types that don’t yet exist. Even old jobs will look completely different altered by technology, changing demographics and globalisation. So how do we plan to prepare students for jobs and workplaces for future?

Here are few important skills that are essential for the students to deal with the future challenges.

Complex Problem Solving

Today, most of the organisation needs workers who follow instructions. Going forward with those needs, our public education system emphasized more on seat time, rote memorisation and fundamental skills development. But in the information age of the 21st century, organisation needs workers who can think creatively, recognize and resolve extremely difficult problems.

Critical Thinking

We’re loaded with information today. The trend will continue in the future, requiring employees to be more well-organised, critical thinkers and customers of information. The candidate needs to quickly distinguish among credible and noncredible sources; scan information for bias, reason, and precision; and recombine those facts to generate new answer and products.

Collaboration

Students can collaborate with various online platforms to gain essential skills through which they can get a desired competitive edge. Opportunities online platforms can provide to the students:

  • Work and learn online with peers from varied backgrounds and geographic areas
  • Team up on group projects where they learn to plan, delegate, communicate, and hold one another accountable for meeting a common goal
  • Practice their foreign-language and cultural skills with native speakers online
  • Learn to use online teamwork tools respectfully and successfully from the chat room to the virtual classroom.

Jobs for tomorrow

Commercial Civilian Drone Operators: In the future, there will be drones for everything including delivery services, forensics and filming. Once drones take over the world, there will be a huge need for business-related civilian drone worker. This will necessitate a pilot’s license and supplementary widespread training and knowledge.

Digital Currency Advisor: Digital currencies are on the rise as people are becoming untrusting of government-controlled currency. To make sure you do not have an informal financial portfolio in the future, you require soliciting a digital currency advisor who is well-verse in the crypto currencies to uphold a diversified portfolio.

Data Scientist: Data scientist looks to be the IT job of the moment. Generally, when something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. However, the demand for data science is taking the world by storm, and companies large and small are demanding to find workers who can understand and combine data and then converse these findings in a way that proves advantageous to the organisations.

By 2020 the number of data science and analytics job listings is proposed to grow by approximately 364,000 to approximately 2,720,000.

Machine Learning: Machine learning, as a demand, developed quite rapidly in the recent years with new methods, technology, languages, new frameworks, new things to learn, which made it very essential for people to be eager to learn. It is a field basically intended for logical minds. It combines technology, math, and business analysis into one job.

Digital Artists: Digital or multimedia artists use technology to make artwork come alive. In addition to conventional art techniques,  digital artists use computer software to produce 3-D animation, interactive website graphics, or digitally enhanced photographs. They may also develop storyboards for animation scenes and edit animation effects.

Waste Data Managers: To ensure data integrity in today’s fast developing information storage industry; numerous redundancies have been built into the system. Achieving more rationalise data storage in the future will need de-duplication specialists who can liberate our data centers of unnecessary copies and playful clutter.

Data Hostage Specialists: Holding data hostage can be done remotely and has the prospective for far greater rewards. This is especially true if the country you’re living in overlooks your actions. This type of movement will give rise to the likes of data-hostage negotiators, data-retrieval specialists, and damage-control analysts.

The writer is chancellor, Manav Rachna International Institute  of Research and Studies