Jobs at Risk

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Low Entry Technical & High Touch Professional
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workers need minimal skills and experiences is a field that involves planning, directing covers occupations of the type that involve are jobs that require special training and
The profound advances in technology have found ways to serve or only ordinary-level education and coordinating activities concerning the close relations with consumers or clients, higher education degree in the field of arts
qualifications. The jobs usually give production of goods. It requires technical requiring skills to understand the specific or science. Professionals proliferate the
as substitutes for human capabilities. We’ve seen this on TV, recruits the benefit of a gainful occupation, know how such as studying and advising need of clients. existing stock of knowledge by applying
opportunity to learn and gain experience, on technological aspects of manufacturing scientific and artistic concepts and theories
films and books, now the alarming concerns have found their way besides serving as a stepping-stone for processes, conducting research and as well as teaching foregoing analysis in a
improving or developing concepts and
into academic discourses. Soon robots will be able to do almost higher-level jobs.
theories as well as operational methods.
systematic manner.

everything—including the most sophisticated brain work.

References:
Jobs at Risk describe the impact of automation and robotics on • From Brawn to Brains- The Impacts of Technology on Jobs in the UK, Deloitte
jobs clustered in four groups; Professional Services, Manufacturing, • Will Your Job Be Done by A Machine?, Planet Money
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