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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) and what it means for

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by StudyMalaysia on June 16, 2020 | Top Stories, Career Guide

From self-driving cars to drone-delivered online shopping, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing how we live,

work, and communicate. But with more and more jobs being taken over by artificial intelligence, what do students

today need to do to stay relevant for future job markets?

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is expected to change how we live, work, and communicate; it is also likely to change
the things we value and the way we value them in the future. Presently, we can already see changing business models and
employment trends.

According to The World Economic Forum, an estimated 65% of kids enrolling in primary education today will end up working
in jobs that haven’t been created yet.

Automation and artificial intelligence are change agents in 4IR that will make certain groups of employees redundant,
replacing them with new workers with the needed skills or with machines that do the job cheaper. Gone are the days where
students go to college or university to study for a degree that will set them up with a job for life.

With technological advances, jobs with these three qualities are most likely to be automated:

repetitive
based on rules
involve limited or well-defined physicality

So what does this mean for students today? In the World

Economic Forum report, The Future of Jobs here are the 10 skills
you will need for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Trends of the future: 2025
1. Complex problem solving
and beyond
10% of people will be wearing clothes
2. Critical thinking connected to the internet
3. Creativity 80% will have unlimited (sponsored) backup
4. People management space in the cloud

5. Coordinating with others

 6. Emotional intelligence There will be one trillion sensors connected to
the internet
7. Judgement and decision making
80% of the world’s population will have Internet
8. Service orientation presence
9. Negotiation The first automobile entirely produced with a 3D
printer
10. Cognitive flexibility
90% of world’s population will own a smart
According to Graham Brown-Martin, there are three key areas phone
where humans beat machines that are key to future job creation: 90% of world’s population will have internet
access
creative endeavours—everything from scientific discovery to
10% of all vehicles on the roads will be
creative writing and entrepreneurship
driverless
social interaction—robots just don’t have the kind of emotional More than 50% of home appliances will be
intelligence that humans do connected to internet
physical dexterity and mobility—millennia of hiking mountains, More rides will be made on shared cars than on
swimming lakes and dancing practice gives humans private cars
extraordinary agility and physical dexterity Source: World Economic Forum 2015

A 2013
research
by 5 things to consider when
Oxford choosing your career
Do you want to choose a career that minimises
your risk of being replaced by a robot? Here are
five things to think about:

1. Study data science and/or get a job in data

2. Choose a job that robots still can’t do well –
focus on jobs that require skills like creativity,
problem solving and connecting with people on
a human level
3. Keep in touch with the job market to get an
insight of which jobs are in demand and its
average salary
4. Be data savvy – learn how to use data to make
decisions and solve problems
5. Get familiar with artificial intelligence

Source: 5 simple tips to help you survive the 4th

industrial revolution

University lists these occupations as the least likely to be computerised based on current technology:

Recreational therapists

First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers

Emergency management directors

Mental health and substance abuse social workers

Audiologists

Occupational therapists
Orthotists and prosthetists

Healthcare social workers

Occupational therapists

First-line supervisors of fire-fighting and prevention workers

Oral and maxillofacial surgeons

Lodging managers

Dietitians and nutritionists

Choreographers

Sales engineers
Instructional coordinators

Physicians and surgeons

Psychologists

Elementary school teachers, except special education

General dentists
 First-line supervisors of police and detectives

The same research by Oxford University showed that out of around 700 occupations, 12 were found to have a 99 per cent
chance of being automated in the future:

Data entry keyers

Library technicians

New accounts clerks

Photographic process workers and processing machine operators

Tax preparers
Cargo and freight agents

Watch repairers
Insurance underwriters

Mathematical technicians
Sewers, hand

Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers

Telemarketers

In a nutshell, 46.4% of jobs in manufacturing, 32.3% in finance and 44% in wholesale and retail are forecast to be lost by the
early 2030s. Less affected will be human health and social work, which are expected to affect less than a fifth of jobs.

Would you like to find out if your choice of career has a high probability of being automated? Click here and type your
occupation to see what researchers think is the probability of your job being automated.

Related Articles:

Malaysia’s future lies in digitalising its Emerging and declining careers in the Will my job be taken over by a robot in

education sector next 5 years the future?

Sources:

Automated robot jobs the 'fourth industrial revolution

Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Infographics show jobs most likely to be lost to robots
Jobs That Will Disappear in 5 Years

These are the jobs most at risk of automation according to Oxford University: Is yours one of them?
The Future of Employment

Copyright © 2020 by Webway e-Services (StudyMalaysia.com)

First Published: 8 May 2018

Article Revised: 16 June 2020

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