Claire Pech – Careers Advisor

There has been a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the media recently, and for very good reasons. We hear often how AI will take over our jobs, and our careers. If you read the negative press, this will leave us all unemployed. For a careers advisor, that can sound like doom and gloom, so we need a balanced approach to all of this. Firstly, we certainly need to embrace the power of AI. Secondly we need to understand this is new and groundbreaking and unknown territory. Thirdly, we need to keep it in perspective and not allow the headlines to make us panic – yet.

I had an interesting discussion this week where the concept of AI was influencing university course decisions, on the basis that AI could potentially have wiped out a whole industry upon graduation. The World Economic Forum’s predictions are changing and initially I read that by 2025 AI will replace 85 million jobs. But then it goes on to explain that AI will also generate a staggering 97 million jobs that are in new areas.

Here are some Interesting sources compiled by StudyWorkGrow for further reading in this fascinating area. Some things are clear. It will be skills that are crucial – not only degrees, not only from a good university, but skills that can be harnessed.

Check out some of these fascinating articles to help with understanding the impact of AI:

• The Impact of AI on the Job Market and Future of Work – intellectdata.com 
• A History of Jobs replaced by Tech and the new jobs it created – University of Melbourne
• 20 Jobs that don’t exist anymore – StudyWorkGrow
• The golden age of AI: Why ChatGPT is just the start – World Economic Forum
• Here’s why education systems need to start taking a ‘skills-first’ approach – World Economic Forum
• Skills you will need for the future – StudyWorkGrow

Careers Space

Years 10,11 and 12 will be attending our annual Careers Space event this week for National Careers Week. As Ma Nishma goes to ‘print’ today we will be hosting 35 alumni from all walks of life, sharing their career stories with our students. We have a range of presenters from nurses, to designers, biochemists to social workers. I am hoping our students get a lot out of these discussions and I look forward to sharing some photos in next week’s edition.

Notices, Dates and Events

Webinars

• UTS | Introduction to Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
  Monday 22 May 2023 Find out more
• UTS | Women in Engineering and IT Scholarships
  Tuesday 23 May 2023  Find out more
• University of Sydney | Film Studies Masterclass – Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton
  Tuesday 23 May 2023  Find out more
• Notre Dame | Pathways to Medicine Information Session
  Monday 29 May 2023  Find out more

© studyworkgrow, May, 2023

All Year 11 and 12s, please diarise the HSC and Careers Expo 2023, on from Thursday 1 June 2023 – Saturday 3 June 2023. This event has hundreds of education and work providers for everything you need to find out about the myriad of choices out there. Find out more

On Monday June 7 2023 I have managed to secure an invitation for all of our Year 12 students to attend the Sydney City Schools Careers Convention, being held at Sydney Grammar School. Buses will be leaving school at 2.50 pm for arrival before 3.30 pm and we will attend an afternoon including a Careers Expo, Career Industry related talks, Professional Industry insights, discussion panels and a host of other fabulous careers events. This is the first time we have managed to arrange this and I am looking forward to seeing the event in action and for it to bring some new ideas to our year group. More details to follow.