DRO ues Section A: The working world Research question A: What skills will | need to enter the job market after | finish my studies? 1. What are your first thoughts and reactions to the question above? Make a list of points. 2. What reasons would you give for your answers? 3. What more would you need to know and what would you need to do before you could come to a definitive conclusion about the question? Eee) Before you rene J Tohelp you think about the research question, you might first like to This chapter concerns discuss the meaning of the word “work”. How is the concept of “work” 2ist-century skills, so use different to the concept of “employment”? your media literacy skills to research information about | the nature of work in the 2st century. Conduct an Internet search to research the types of jobs that will be available to future generations. You may want to hold a class discussion about the kind of jobs that will be available to you and the way work will be organized by the time you have finished college or university. In pairs or groups study the photograph here. What is the photograph. suggesting about the nature of work in the future? | To complete this task, interact with media to use and create ideas e Locate, organize, analyze, Makea list of your conclusions. Now read the text. evaluate, synthesize and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. | + Demonstrate awareness, of media interpretations of events and ideas. + Make informed choices about personal viewing, experiences, + Seek a range of | perspectives from multiple and varied sources. | + Compare, contrast and draw connections among (multi)media resources. Ml Escaneado con CamScannerWhat Work Will Look Like In _The 21st Century Dave Carvajal ‘The three tech trends that are shaping how you'll live and work in the century ahead Ispend plenty of time at Dave Partners talking about work in the tech world. In this week's post I am going to look at how the best minds out there are thinking about how tech is changing work itself — for all of us, whether we work in tech or not. Recently I have written about how we have so many new tools now that have changed the nature of what we can do at work. Here are some of the most exciting qualities of tech-enabled work in the 2ist century. 1, In the age of crowd-sourcing, crowd-funding and the massive cooperative projects that create open-source software, traditional business hierarchies feel rather out of date. More and more business leaders are switching to structures that allow employees to switch teams, communicate and work together across traditional boundaries. Workers can get things done without worrying about anyone's precise job description. : 2. Mark Cuban, on his Twitter, says that ‘jobs’ are on the way out. Instead of reportingtoa + single employer for a set number of hours; day, 21st-century workers will operate ina perpetually open marketplace, selling chunks of time and skills to whomever can benefit : from them. As more and more industries : switch to a freelance model, and more and more workers rack up second jobs and hard freelance gigs in their spare time, it's not hard; to imagine that we'll see ourselves — not 2 as people with “jobs” ~ but as Pr -ofessionals with varied client bases that can make use of all our different talents. 3. The Internet with all the cloud services, communication tools, and collaborative mechanisms means that almost no-one honestly needs to work in an office any longer. Almost any work you can imagine can be done from a laptop in your living room, or even from your phone. Flexibility means that you have more options and contexts than ever before in which to get your work done — that a snowy day or a delayed train doesn’t mean you can’t get to work on time. It just means you can’t get to your chair on time. When work becomes free, we all become free to move, which is one of the most heartening developments of all 4. Granted, all this sounds drastic. We should remember there's a lot to be said for stability and experience. For example, a permanent employee who's been working on your team for five years can contribute more than someone who's been brought in for an hour, simply because they know the business and you on a deeper level that only experience can buy. Moreover none of this renders offices obsolete. The kind of complex information transfer, collaboration, training and social cohesion that a truly great company needs is much easier to communicate face to face. Escaneado con CamScannerSerre Consider the process of learning; choosing and using learning skills Think about your own personal academic and professional goals. ‘Asa future potential job seeker, make a list ofall the skills and qualities mentioned inthe article on page 341 that you will want to acquire by the time you enter the world of work. Make a list of the relevant skills you already possess. Draw up a plan of action to ‘make sure that you able to acquire these skills when the time comes. + Identify skills relevantto your personal academic and professional goals, + Developnewskills, techniques and strategies for effective learning. ir xt. Match the headings with the paragraphs in the te A Using technology in the Collaborative working ai F The 2lst-century office 8 Aword of caution Traditional working practices Mobili Fixed-term contracts Employment in a free market D_ The danger of long-term 6 © Ageneration of transformation 1 employment J Choose the correct answer from A, B, C, or D. Write the letter in the answer box provided. 5 The text is: A. an official report Cc. a technology blog O B. anarticle froma lifestyle D. ancws story magazine 6 The text seems to be addressed to: A. an audience of computer ¢. a public with an O scientists interest in the subject B. students and work seekers D. the general public. 7 The writer seems to be: A. anentrepreneur c 8. a journalist a technology specialist D. a politician, Answer the following questions. 8 Whats causing such a massive transformation in the ways we work? 9 Why is flexible working more productive for ‘employers and employees? Which word in paragraph 3 describes independent working? According to paragraph 4 which word best describes the of this new way of working? 10 " advantages 12 In the final paragraph, identify the phrase which explains why long- term employees are often so valuable to a company? Cieonc Having read the text, What Work Will Loo having answered the comprehension qi learned about the future of work? k Like In The 21st Century, and luestions, what more have you Use your insights to draw up a set of explaining how they can best prepa responses will give clear advice usi Buidelines for your fellow DP students re for their future career. The best ing examples and evidence from the text. Escaneado con CamScanner