Future-proof JobsHow to survive the Digital Age

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Overview: from Macro to Micro

• Labor market trends

• include Digital World Now

• Company’s HR challenges

• Individual’s responses

Macro

Micro

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Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/rainer_strack_the_surprising_workforce_crisis_of_2030_and_how_to_start_solving_it_now

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How sector employment has shifted

Source: Erik Buyst (K.U. Leuven)

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How automatable jobs decline over time

Source: Maarten Goos (K.U. Leuven) 8

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Companies’ HR challenges • Managing talent

Broaden geographic scope – tailor identification & reward processes

• Managing demographics

Anticipate shortfall in job families – actions to meet changing age of workforce

• Becoming a learning organisation

Tailor learning strategy – ensure tangible improvements

• Managing work-life balance

Offer flexibility – enhance the perception on the market

• Managing change and cutural transformation

Appoint change executive – visualize change management programs

Source: the future of HR in Europe 2010-2015 – Boston Consulting Group

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Lifelong learning as response

Homo Universalis (Renaissance) is

more relevant than ever

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Transversal competences• Multilingual - Start Early

• Multidisciplinary - and acquire some more during life - Do Your Math!

• MultiCultural - cross-cultural & travel

• Flexibility - Change becomes the New Normal

• Personal Development - self-made & corporate originated

• Specialised Competencies - PhD better than Master

• The Future Belongs to the Audacious and Curious

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Entrepreneurification of Employees• Share The Mission

• Share the Vision

• Share the Values

• Share the Sense of Purpose

• Share the Added-Value fairly

• Add Autonomy

• Add Responsibility

• Add Reporting

• Add a Sense of Urgency

• Substract the notion of Subordination Link

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Recognize brain limitations

Build in shutdown capacity

• 100: average number of smartphone views [Locket app]

• 40: average number of office interruptions [Wall Street Journal]

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Reflective Brain vs Reflex Brain

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THANK YOU

and Good Luck into the Future…

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