Preparing Your Kids for the Future

85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven't been created yet

Nov 9, 2022

In this newsletter, we provide you with notes on 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven't been created yet, an episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast with Ginny.

Ginny Yurich is the creator of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast: Childhood is finite at just shy of 9.5 million minutes. We only get one shot at it. One of the biggest decisions we make is how we will use that time. She is joined in this episode by Ryan Collins, CEO of Bethel Tech.

Save time and read our notes below on tech and the value of play.

Topics covered in this summary

Discussing the Future and Technology
The Value of Play

Discussing the Future and Technology

A few stats by Ryan:

85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven't been created yet.
2/3rd of the jobs created over the last 10 years have been in digital and tech.
7% of the technology talent workforce is black and there is a concerted effort to increase that percentage.
Character is very important. Companies are looking for the right character and skill set but would choose the individual with the high character over skills, because skills are easier to teach.

Ginni:

In the book Humans Need Not Apply by Jerry Kaplan, it says that: with respect to professional training, we are making two mistakes: one, we are relying mainly on traditional schools to decide what to teach students. Our accredited institutions are not known for their responsiveness to economic trends because the administrators developing the curriculum are not out in the field keeping up to date with what novel skills will be most valuable to the economy. Two, the assumption that first you go to school and then you get a job. This made sense when jobs and skills change on a generational time scale, but it doesn’t in today’s fast moving labour markets.

Ryan:

Ginni Rometty, the former CEO of IBM coined the phrase: New-Collar Skills.
She said that the future of work is in tech, and it’s not about white- or blue-collar skills, it’s about new-collar skills.
These are jobs that require immediate applicable skills that are being updated on a regular basis and it doesn’t require a degree. This is the future of education aligning with the future of work.
In 2013, Gallup surveyed 100 hiring executives at some of the largest companies in the world and 100 university presidents.
The question posed to hiring executives: How confident are you that you are receiving ready to work graduates from the university systems.11% of them said they are confident that they are receiving ready to work graduates.
The question posed to university presidents: How confident are you that you are producing ready to work graduates. 98% said they were confident.
The education institutions that are going to win in the future are the ones that listen to what companies are needing in terms of talent and update accordingly to meet this need.

The Value of Play

Open-ended play gives children a chance to develop flexibility, adaptability, and creativity.
There is a misconception that we are not setting children up for the future when valuing play. You children don’t need to have spent their whole childhood in tech to be prepared for the future.
Play is the impetus for creativity.
In the tech space employers are looking for people who know how to think, not just what to think. To think creatively.
Tech hire assessments provide insight into how the candidate is thinking and not just and not just the answer they came to.
It is an emboldening thought that we don’t need to prepare our 6 year olds for the future, because by the time they are 18, things would have changed so much. We can save that time for play.
When we talk about 85% of the jobs haven’t been created yet, there are a lot of parents and their kids that will be creating the line to follow. This can only happen if you disrupt the status quo.
Real life story by Ginni on the value of play: An individual got a job as an aeroplane technician and the only interview question asked was whether the individual played with Lego as a child. They were looking to see if the individual could ‘build’ and be creative.

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