< PreviousDATA SCIENTIST EST. WAGE : $100,000 and above MARKET FACTORS The higher the Wage Score the more likely it is this is a highly paid job. 1. Certification Requirements 6 2. Confidentiality and Trust 8 3. Complexity 9 4. Cultural Expertise 5 5. Impact of Failure 7 6. Industry Profitability 8 7. Language Skills Requirement 4 8. Level of Experience 8 9. Level of Expertise 9 10. Level of Impact 9 11. Level of Responsibility 7 12. Level of Risk 6 13. Market Demand 10 14. Multi-Disciplinary Expertise 8 15. Output Quality 9 16. Specialised Knowledge 9 17. Specialised Skills 9 18. Talent Scarcity 9 WAGE SCORE 140 / 180 PERSONAL TOUCH LOW DATA SCIENTIST : AUTOMATABILITY, JOB FULFILMENT, AND WAGES In this example we look at the job of a Senior Data scientist with an average salary of $100,000 per annum and which has a high Wage Score of 140. Ten hard skills and ten soft skill competencies are listed with 03 and 09 being the most important hard skills, and 15 and 17 being the most important soft skills. Candidates with these skills are scarce, and also in high demand. This role, in time can be automated which wipes out the wage entirely, and using technology to up skill candidates would depress the wage by increasing the pool of available candidates. Furthermore, the low Personal Touch score means it’s a candidate for automation. 01. BIG DATA TECHNOLOGIES / Hadoop, Spark 11. ADAPTABILITY 02. CLOUD COMPUTING / AWS, Azure, GCP 03. DATA ANALYSIS & MANIPULATION / SQL, Pandas 04. DATA VISUALISATION / Seaborn, Tableau 05. DATA WRANGLING 07. MACHINE LEARNING / TensorFlow, PyTorch 08. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 09. PROGRAMMING / Python, R 10 . STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 12. ATTENTION TO DETAIL 13 . COMMUNICATION 14. CREATIVITY 15 . CRITICAL THINKING 17. PROBLEM SOLVING 18. PROJECT MANAGEMENT 19. TEAMWORK 20. TIME MANAGEMENT 06. DEEP LEARNING16. LEADERSHIP CHART KEY LOW - HIGH REQUIREMENT _ +MULTI-NATIONAL CEO EST. WAGE : $840,000 and above MARKET FACTORS The higher the Wage Score the more likely it is this is a highly paid job. 1. Certification Requirements 7 2. Confidentiality and Trust 9 3. Complexity 10 4. Cultural Expertise 6 5. Impact of Failure 10 6. Industry Profitability 9 7. Language Skills Requirement 5 8. Level of Experience 10 9. Level of Expertise 10 10. Level of Impact 10 11. Level of Responsibility 10 12. Level of Risk 9 13. Market Demand 10 14. Multi-Disciplinary Expertise 9 15. Output Quality 10 16. Specialised Knowledge 9 17. Specialised Skills 9 18. Talent Scarcity 10 WAGE SCORE 162 / 180 PERSONAL TOUCH HIGH CEO : AUTOMATABILITY, JOB FULFILMENT, AND WAGES In this example we look at the job of a multi-national CEO with a wage range of at least $840,000 or more and which has a high Wage Score of 162. Ten hard skills and ten soft skill competencies are listed with 03 and 09 being the most important hard skills, and 15 and 17 being the most important soft skills. Candidates with these skills are scarce, and the impact of the role and of failure is high. This role, in time could be automated, but the high Personal Touch rating means that it could be inappropriate for automation. 01. BUSINESS STRATEGY 11. ADAPTABILITY 02. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 03. FINANCIAL ACUMEN 04. INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE 05. MARKET ANALYSIS 07. OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 08. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE 09. RISK MANAGEMENT 10 . TECHNOLOGY LITERACY 12. COMMUNICATION 13 . CONFLICT RESOLUTION 14. CREATIVITY 15 . CRITICAL THINKING 17. LEADERSHIP 18. NEGOTIATION 19. PROBLEM SOLVING 20. VISIONARY THINKING 06. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS16. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE CHART KEY LOW - HIGH REQUIREMENT _ +DATA SCIENTIST EST. WAGE : $100,000 and above HUMAN QUOTIENT 151 / 180 AUTOMATION QUOTIENT 89 / 180 THE LIKELIHOOD OF JOB AUTOMATION In this example we score the role of Data Scientist for its ability to be fully or partially automated using technology, with the total Automation Score giving us a good idea of its automation potential. The more capable of automating an individual skill a technology is the higher its score out of 10. Partial automation occurs when a moderate number of skills can be automated to a suitable level - this is where we are more likely to see technology augment the employee - whereas full automation occurs when all of the skills that are needed to create a suitable level of output are automatable. 01. BIG DATA TECHNOLOGIES / Hadoop, Spark 11. ADAPTABILITY 02. CLOUD COMPUTING / AWS, Azure, GCP 03. DATA ANALYSIS & MANIPULATION / SQL, Pandas 04. DATA VISUALISATION / Seaborn, Tableau 05. DATA WRANGLING 07. MACHINE LEARNING / TensorFlow, PyTorch 08. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 09. PROGRAMMING / Python, R 10 . STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 12. ATTENTION TO DETAIL 13 . COMMUNICATION 14. CREATIVITY 15 . CRITICAL THINKING 17. PROBLEM SOLVING 18. PROJECT MANAGEMENT 19. TEAMWORK 20. TIME MANAGEMENT 06. DEEP LEARNING16. LEADERSHIP CHART KEY LOW - HIGH REQUIREMENT _ +MATTHEW GRIFFIN 311INSTITUTE.com PARTIAL AUTOMATION AUGMENTS HUMANS . FULL AUTOMATION REPLACES THEM .THE FUTURE NEEDS SOFT SKILLST ALK, AND being able to shine a light on the challenges many of us will face in the future might be all well and good but what we’re really interested in is putting forward a credible solution so these are the foundations, the soft skills, that I arguably propose all education systems should be capable of teaching and instilling in students. In my mind however while you’ll have already no doubt identified the fact that many of today’s education systems already play on and teach these foundations, many of which are soft but important life skills, personally I don’t believe that there is a strong enough emphasis or focus on many of them. All to often these are skills that are taught indirectly, often by coincidence, inference or stealth, than by actually focusing on them as their own specific subjects, and that’s what I propose here, that there is much more emphasis on each of them tomorrow than there is today, and if we get this right then we will have a generation of adaptable, resilient children. ADAPTABILITY In the future, where, as I’ve discussed in previous chapters, almost no profession will be safe from automation, certainly in the long term, and where the pace of technological development is going to continue to accelerate exponentially, leaving no corner of society or industry untouched, it will be more important than ever that students are able to adapt and navigate change, whatever its pace or scale, at speed - speed being the key point here. Today the majority of schools don’t focus on adaptability at all. Once students leave the confines of the classroom they are going to be entering a world where advances in technology are going to accelerate the pace at which professions are automated and careers dead-end, and while we can all do our best to predict the short, medium and long term future of jobs the fact of the matter is the further into the future we travel the more difficult everything becomes to predict. Ergo, in my opinion, teachers would be wise to try to prepare their students for the unknown, and as a result, students ability to adapt is going to be vital in the years and decades to come. CHARISMA We’ve all come across those people, you know the ones, the people who seem at ease speaking to anyone and everyone, 155311institute.comand who have the almost annoying ability make everyone they meet feel special. While there is much talk of developing and nurturing a myriad of alternative soft skills, which one could argue all, in one way or another, help contribute to an individuals charismatic personality there are no provisions made within schools to foster charisma specifically, despite the fact that we know, even today, that it’s a special skill to have, and tomorrow even more so. COLLABORATION The ability to collaborate and work together within teams, whether those teams are physical and in your local area or virtual teams spread around the globe, will continue to be a vital skill just as it was all those millennia ago on the plains of Africa when humankind hunted in groups to find and take down large prey. Today we are used to our teams being comprised solely of people, but as we race into the future again teams will be increasingly augmented by intelligent machines that will change team dynamics while at the same time improving productivity. As a result it will be increasingly important that students are able to collaborate efficiently with both humans and machines, the latter of which will help spur a revolution in the field. CONFIDENCE Confidence is perhaps one of our most fickle skills. It’s hard to attain, and easy to loose, furthermore getting the right balance can be difficult, tip the scale too far and people run the risk of coming across as arrogant, and no-one wants that. From a confidence perspective at least, our journey through today’s education system, just like in life itself, can be a roller coaster ride of highs and lows as students achieve success and grapple with failure on an almost daily basis. That said though very few people, if anyone, dispute the benefits that confidence can have on a students performance, both in the classroom and later on in life. CREATIVITY Every one of us is born with the creative flame within us that we express in different ways and with different levels of intensity. When combined with experimentation creativity, of all the skills Notes: 156311institute.comwe posses, is probably the one we should give the most credit to because without it it could be argued that the human race wouldn’t be what it is today. CURIOSITY During our formative years we are all curious, insanely so. Curious about each other and the world around us. We are all natural born explorers and in our early years our curiosity appears almost limitless and unbounded, after all, this is the time in our lives where everything is interesting, new and unexplored. Curiosity needs fostering and nurturing though, and often as we age unfortunately our curiosity seems to wane which is almost criminal, especially when you realise that almost all of today’s great breakthroughs were the result of one of more individuals intense sense of curiosity and desire to improve on what came before, and change the status quo. EMPATHY Most complex animals are able to exhibit empathy in one form or another, but in the future empathy is, arguably, going to become a vital skill, and a more complex one to navigate, especially as we begin to see the emergence of machines capable of reacting to human emotional cues that will also be able to exhibit their own simulated emotions. As technology continues to help make the world smaller students will be increasingly exposed to a greater variety of environments and situations than ever before, some of them real, and in their backyard, and others from across the other side of the planet, from the edges of space, or in new immersive virtual reality environments - environments that will be both real and simulated. These new frontiers will offer students an unprecedented amount of exposure on a scale that previous generations could only have imagined and give them, on the one hand, the ability to understand some of the world’s most pressing problems from the first person view, and on the other, present them with challenges when it comes to trying to separate truth from fiction. EXPERIMENTATION Combined with creativity, experimentation is probably one of the most important skills for students Notes: 157311institute.comto master as we head into the future, whether it’s experimentation at a small scale, or a grand scale. It’s also a skill that is increasingly catching the eyes of education researchers and policy makers alike around the world, and more schools are already starting to make room for it in their curriculums. EXPONENTIAL THINKING Step back just five or so decades to the time of your parents childhoods and it’s fair to say that the majority of life was much more linear and local that it is today, or will be in the future. Life changed, as it always does, but those changes were slower to permeate through society and their impact was more muted. Today we have the opportunity to curate revolutionary ideas and products that can affect billions of lives and at a speed that noone dared dream about just 50 years ago. As a result it’s fair to say that increasingly our lives are impacted, for better or worse, by exponential advances in technology, and their capabilities, and by not just what happens on our doorstep, but also by what happens on the other side of the world. Our world is increasingly exponential and global and if our students, whatever their ages, are to realise their full potential then their thinking needs to shift from linear to exponential where a whole new world awaits. FOCUS We are all aware of just how important the ability to concentrate and focus on the task at hand is, but similarly we are all guilty at one time or another of suffering from what I like to call split brain syndrome where we try to take on too many tasks at once with the result being that none of them get completed properly. On the one hand new technologies and tools could make students ability to focus even more challenging than it is today, but on the other, depending how these new technologies and tools are implemented, they could also help augment and improve it. LEADERSHIP While it could be argued that everyone has it within them to become a good manager the same isn’t true of leaders, just ask anyone in business. Very few people, if any, are born with Notes: 158311institute.comnatural leadership skills, but the evidence of the benefits of good leadership and the positive impact it has on business, culture and society, are all around us. As we look to a future where technology, for example, will bring both great challenges and opportunities, I advocate that what we will need are more leaders, and fewer managers. MORAL COMPASS Everyone knows how important a good moral compass is, and while today’s education system does the best it can to instil the right behaviours and thinking in its students the future will be full of ethical challenges and moral dilemmas, of a scale and intensity, that test the best of them. As a result being able to objectively understand both sides of an argument objectively, and being able to find solutions to ethical dilemmas will become an increasingly important skill. PASSION You can always tell when someone is passionate about something. You can see it in their face and the way they hold and express themselves, and you can also, for the most part, see the role it plays in their everyday lives. Our passions inspire us and drive us, and that’s why this arguably most human of traits, is one of the most important for educators to be able to tap into. But discovering a students passion relies on them being exposed to as many different experiences and situations as possible, and as we all know what excites and inspire one individual may bore another to tears. In the past, when life was local and linear, not global and exponential, the vast majority of people were limited to the experiences within their local area. Step back just a couple of hundred years and the sum of most people’s experiences were typically encapsulated within a ten mile radius of where they lived. Today though this is no more, technology helps us see beyond our previously limited horizons and experience new things in new ways, whether they’re right in our backyard, or at the edges of known space. PERSISTENCE We can all empathise with the amount of hard work and persistence we’ve had to exhibit in order to achieve one or more Notes: 159311institute.comNext >