Did you know, if you went to the Santa Clara University Career Center website, you would
see a statement that reads, “85% of the jobs that Generation Z will be doing in 2030,
have not yet been invented.
Front and center of that page, all by itself.
Santa Clara University Career Center website has that statement today, right now, May 22nd,
2021.
So, what does that mean for us?
Especially people in mid to late career.
How do we prepare for something like this?
My name is Bill Benoist.
I'm a certified professional career coach here in Silicon Valley, and primarily work
with people at mid to late career.
And I want to give you just a couple of hints.
It's going to be a quick video today, but I do want to share a couple of things that
I think might be very helpful for you.
So, you know, the workforce it's really divided into what I would say to different groups
of people.
You have the highly technical people out there, the software engineers and the quality assurance,
engineers, all of these technical individuals.
And then you have what I would say, the non-technical people, you know, like me.
Now granted, I was in technology for 25 years, but I was a manager within the information
services department.
I really wasn't that technical because I had a great team under me.
But I mean, you could be an attorney or a financial analyst or Project manager, you
know, anything other than say a software engineer.
So how do we prepare for something like this?
So let me quote some statistics from another organization.
It's actually a marketing firm called Omnicore.
And Omnicore, they are all into collecting data and they collected a whole bunch of data
from LinkedIn.
And you know, I love LinkedIn.
Well, there was some numbers on LinkedIn and these are all current numbers, again, 2021.
And what they found was that the number one soft skill soft skill that hiring managers
and recruiters are looking for today is creativity.
I was the number one skill and they did not list a number two.
As far as hard skills were concerned, they listed two.
One of them was blockchain and the other one was cloud.
Cloud computing.
I thought that was really interesting.
I would never have guessed blockchain, but let me add a couple of more, what I am hearing
here in Silicon Valley for the last couple of years.
Creativity is definitely one of them, but another one is continuous improvement, which
is also a soft skill.
As far as the hard skills.
You're looking at AI and big data as well.
As far as Python, Python is a, you know, big programming language out there, but it's not
as common as what I would say, AI and big data cloud, definitely out there.
Again, I was kind of surprised about the blockchain, but these are some areas.
So how do you really develop these areas?
Well, I've talked about this before.
You know, you have to, you have to be on a continuous learning path.
You have to be curious out there you are not, I don't care if you are a project manager
or a software engineer, you have to remain curious.
You have to be up to speed on the industry.
And one of the best ways to do this is through online courses, staying current.
And I've talked about Coursera before.
I've talked about LinkedIn learning.
I've talked about you.
To me, there's a number of different paths that they're reasonably priced.
If not, even for free, for a lot of cases, that will keep you in the loop, set up some
Google Alerts on your industry, whatever it is out there, you know, this is something
that I've actually done.
I've set up Google Alerts on LinkedIn updates, LinkedIn Releases.
So I can stay up to date and inform you guys.
So, you remember, this is your career.
You have to take control of it.
You have to be in control of your career because no one else is going do that for you.
No one else is going to take accountability or responsibility for your career.
This is your responsibility.
So quick video today, just something I want to talk about, because I thought it was really
interesting that, you know, nine years, 2013, that's not far away.
And for Santa Clara university career center website to put this dead center there, they
know something out there.
Thanks for stopping by.
If you haven't already subscribed to this channel, make sure that you do so hit a bell
notification as a do upload new career tips and strategies every Tuesday and seriously,
I don't want you to miss anything.
See you next week.