Volume 31 Issue 28 09 Sep 2022 13 Elul 5782

Careers

Claire Pech – Careers Advisor

Lucy Sattler from Study Work Grow noted the following statistic on LinkedIn: “There are over 1,000 jobs in the ANZSCO list of classifications (1,070 in 2021 to be exact), but half of all teenagers expect to work in one of the 10 most ‘popular’ jobs when they grow up”.

The 10 popular jobs include careers as doctors, teachers, lawyers, and architects. When so many young people are focused on such a narrow range of opportunities it’s a sign that they don’t know enough about what else is out there. 

Find out about other amazing opportunities:

There is new data coming out from the CSIRO, future projecting some mega-trends over the next few years:

  1. Adapting to climate change: with natural disasters expected to cost the Australian economy almost three times more in 2050 than in 2017, we can expect to be living in a more volatile climate, characterised by unprecedented weather events. 
  2. Leaner, cleaner and greener: an increased focus on potential solutions to our resource constraints through synthetic biology, alternative proteins, advanced recycling and the net-zero energy transition. By 2025, renewables are expected to surpass coal as the primary energy source. (Careers – Environment, Sustainability, Environmental Engineer, Scientist, Futurist)
  3. The escalating health imperative: the post-pandemic world has exacerbated existing health challenges posed by an ageing population and growing burden of chronic disease. One in five Australians report high or very high levels of psychological distress and there is heightened risk of infectious diseases and pathogens resistant to modern antibiotics. There is now a burning platform to also respond to our health risks and improve health outcomes. (Careers – anything in the Allied Health Field will have big growth, Nursing, Health Sciences, Aged Care, Disabilities Services, Psychologists and Counsellors, Health Service Workers and Advocacy work)
  4. Geopolitical shifts: an uncertain future, characterised by disrupted patterns of global trade, geopolitical tensions and growing investment in defence. While the global economy shrunk by 3.2% in 2020, global military spend reached an all-time high of $2.9 trillion and Australia saw a 13% increase in cybercrime reported relative to the previous year. (Careers – Cyber Security, Data Science, Computer Science and STEM, International Relations, Diplomacy, Economics)
  5. Diving into digital: the pandemic-fuelled a boom in digitisation, with teleworking, telehealth, online shopping and digital currencies becoming mainstream. Forty percent of Australians now work remotely on a regular basis and the future demand for digital workers expected to increase by 79% from 2020 to 2025. (Careers – self-made businesses, working from home opportunities, side businesses and services)
  6. Increasingly autonomous: there has been an explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) discoveries and applications across practically all industry sectors over the past several years. Within the science domain the use of AI is rising with the number of peer-reviewed AI publications increasing nearly 12 times from 2000 to 2019. (Careers – AI, Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Medical Science, Biotechnology)
  7. Unlocking the human dimension: a strong consumer and citizen push for decision makers to consider trust, transparency, fairness and environmental and social governance. While Australia saw a record level increase in public trust in institutions during the pandemic, this ‘trust bubble’ has since burst, with societal trust in business dropping by 7.9% and trust in government declining by 14.8% from 2020-21.
    Source: Our Future World.

Sydney University

We had an excellent opportunity to partner with Sydney University last week to host Daniel Kim who offered one-on-one sessions to Years 11 and 12 students about attending Australia’s oldest university.

This was a new initiative to help engage students in thinking about the future and studying, looking at which courses they may want to consider after school.

Daniel Kim talking to our students