Tuesday, August 28, 2018
How to test your ability to do a job you've never done
www.fastcompany.com: If you want to remain employable as the world of work changes rapidly, it’s important to remember three things. Most of the things you learned in college are of very limited use, the majority of future jobs do not exist today, and a large percentage of jobs within organizations remain unfilled because there aren’t enough people willing and able to do those jobs.
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This article was very disappointing and the title is very misleading. At first I assumed that this article would go into detail and provide more information. However, all it said was three very basic overall themes. The three categories were very basic and provided no real help in determining if a job you’ve never done before will work out. I think this article should change to how to a pick a job. The three categories are extremely helpful in picking a job overall, not just a job you have never done before. I agree that extroverts should probably have a job with more personal interaction and introverts with less interactions. Overall if they could give more details about each topic that would be great. For example instead of just writing that an extrovert will do well in HR, they could write in detail about how more productive an extrovert will be in jobs that require interaction and compare it with research to if an introvert would do at the job.
I always wonder when I see these articles how they will apply to more artistic professions. Especially as AI eats away at the jobs we know today, it seems that art must be the last bastion of human superiority, that there must be something human in such an emotional profession. Maybe not. Computers already compose music and paintings and short stories. For now, human designers are better. How much longer? How many more years until a computer can design a show or even direct one? What new jobs will be created that computers can’t do better? While the qualities outlined in this article of being curious and intrinsically motivated certainly should help us adapt to the changing workplace in the short term, especially as fields like projections and sound continue to undergo rapid change, I wonder if they will still be applicable in 50 or 100 years. Maybe we won’t face that crisis, but beyond one more generation it seems inevitable.
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