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What do you have to offer your employer? What are your skills? What talents do you have? Can you use the computer and the Internet?
Before moving forward to identify your personal skills and abilities, think about the changes that have taken place in the world of work over the past 10 years. What businesses and industries have been most successful?
Futurists like Frank Jarlett of San Diego, California have stated that the workplace is in a constant mode of change. In fact, Jarlett states that “40% of the career opportunities that will be available in the year 2015, have yet to be created” he recommends that we look at the trends in the market place over the last 20 years to prepare to identify our future career choices.
How do we prepare for the unknown? First lets start to look at these trends that have occurred in the past two decades in the form of advancements in technology.
Mainstream Computer use-Frequent Space Travel
Cellular Phone Communications-Satellites
Video Cassette Recorders-Fiber Optics
Robotics-DVD Music and Cinema
Laser Technology-Synthetic Compounds
Occupational groups, or clusters of career choices for example in business and medicine have remained the same, but sub-specialties within each discipline have changed dramatically. How they keep records, communicate, and transfer information has been revolutionized though technological advances. Faxes, e-mail, and voice-mail have replaced couriers and mail carriers. Business and Industry want it now!
Using the skills identified by the Secretaries Commission on Achieving Necessary Skill (SCANS), identify your current skills and abilities you possess and can use on a regular basis.
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