Jobhop Jobhop's blog : National Careers Week 2016 And The Theme Is Future Jobs
National Careers week is here in the UK from the 7th- 11th March.
Founded by Nick Newman over six years ago, he saw trouble ahead for our future generations as the government cuts laid into services meant for our young people so he decided to act.
National Careers week has reached out to schools, academies, colleges, universities and has made a difference to many young people.
Young people have been able to meet local employers, been given advice and guidance, as well as information on career opportunities.
Many young people don’t often get the chance to meet employers, but during National Careers Week barriers are taken down and young people get up close to decision makers. These employers can tell them what makes a great interview, what impresses them, what type of attitude they look for, why researching the company is important and more. It’s from the horses mouth, as they say; usually, that’s a better way of educating young people, better than reading about it from a textbook.
Each year for National Careers week there’s a theme and 2016 is no different, the theme set for this year is future jobs. The theme will be very interesting because many schools still teach yesterday's education which robs our young people of tomorrow's jobs. Schools have to speed up dramatically to keep up with the pace of technology. Many skills still do not recognise social media as a skill even though it was reported on the Indeed job board, that the skill required most by employers for digital marketing jobs were social media skills.
Jobs like ethical hackers, cyberwarriors, reputation brand manager, gamification specialist, digital addiction counsellors, social media manager, vertical farmers, waste data handler, conversion optimisation specialist, games alpha tester, programmers and more
What is going to happen though if teachers are not equipped to teach for the future jobs market? A survey carried out by Virgin Media Business found that only 15% of teachers considered themselves completely computer savvy!
Now think about this, it is said that a student studying a four year technical programme, half of what they learn in the first year will be outdated by the third year, that is a serious concern? What is the answer? The only answer I have is that teaching has to become agile and for that to happen teachers need to keep upskilling regularly.
With 11million UK jobs at high risk of becoming automated by 2036, the education system needs to change quickly.
For many young people, it will be quite common to be the second choice to a robot!
I hope that many teachers get tweeting using the hashtag #NCW2016 and tell us what they’re doing to make sure our young people are fully equipped for the future jobs market.
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