Who to study for: professions that will be in demand in 5-10 years
'05.12.2020'
Source: Eva.ru
For several years now, research by recruiting companies has shown sad statistics: there are fewer and fewer university graduates working in their specialty, and competition for jobs is increasing. And the rapidly changing world is forcing us to adapt to new online realities, writes Eva.ru.
The pandemic has turned the labor market upside down, made some professions relevant, and took others into the past. Nikolay Yagodkin, founder of the Advance educational technology center, spoke about five professions that will be in demand over the course of 10-15 years. Further - from the first person.
IT and everything connected with them
The first area, I think, will not surprise anyone - this is IT: programming and development, design and data analysis. IT is developing very quickly, each time more and more specialties appear within this area, and nothing will change in the next 5-10 years.
Biotechnology
This is another area that promises to remain relevant, because it is related to the person, the body, physiology and options to improve it. Biotechnology is everywhere: biofuels, biological fertilizers, bacteria that decompose rock in the mining industry in order to purify the mineral to the desired concentration. Soy meat, 3D printed food is also biotechnology because it's organic. Biotechnology is entering our lives, smoothly shifting chemistry (in its pure form), which is less environmentally friendly and less efficient.
And this I did not touch upon the topic of genetic engineering, which occupies the most important place in modern life. Try to survive in agriculture without combining genetically modified plants - it will not work.
If you want to get a profession that is in demand in 10-20 years (and this is the main criterion), take up bioinformatics (a specialty at the intersection of biotechnology and IT). There are such faculties - it will definitely not be in vain lost 4 years.
Her majesty the analyst
If in the conditions of an industrial society the means of production were the key resource, now it is undoubtedly information. But just having information is not enough. There is so much of it that it is impossible to process. Therefore, people working with information in various fields (for example, creating machine algorithms for data processing) will always be in demand. It is even difficult to imagine the scale of the information flow that is collected by machine devices (our geolocation, how many times we waved our hands, walked steps, consumed calories or burned during training).
Let me give you a simple example: a fitness bracelet transmits information to the phone, which sends the data to a map service, and that service issues recommendations on the social network. All this is data analysis.
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Marketing in the broadest sense of the word
There are 7 billion people on Earth, and each has a huge number of different kinds of needs. Thus, we get just an astronomical figure with which you can and should work. Marketing will not be limited to promoting a product, but is busy researching the audience and creating something that satisfies the needs of the individual. They need to be formalized, identified and processed.
In addition, you need to create products for them, containing individual solutions. For example, it's not easy to add air conditioning, insurance, heated seats to the car (a standard set of options), but the ability to paint the right side green and eliminate the left side (because the client does not need it). This is an exaggeration, but the point is that the future is in choosing your own product. There are already places where you can collect your hamburger or pizza, and your pizza can be radically different from your neighbor's pizza.
The end of the century of consumption is not expected for at least several decades, because this is the main engine of the existing economic system. The demand is personalized. It is users, opinion leaders, who set global trends. This means that marketing that can identify such needs and satisfy with a custom product will be on top.
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Training specialists
The training specialist is another top profession of the future. On the one hand, for the next 100 years, we ourselves, and especially our children, will have to constantly learn, retrain for other professions, and develop new competencies. The blame is the world, which is changing instantly, and the labor market, which is transforming accordingly. On the other hand, people consume more and less and learn less (at least in our country). According to a study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in Russia most people stop studying after 25 years. They have 2 options: take low-paid positions or learn to learn.
Therefore, we need specialists who will be able to learn effectively on their own and understand how to teach others, to facilitate the process for those who do not like it. It's not enough to adapt to changes, you need to anticipate them and invest in your own future.
My advice is to choose one of the listed professions, reach a serious level and do not stand still. Develop intellectual endurance and become specialists who can be counted on one hand in the city and country, then you will not have to fear the future!
