There is a gap between what business leaders expect from fresh grads, and what the new job takers offer. In most cases the hires are intelligent, ambitious, and technically savvy. They have the ability to accomplish the work based on the knowledge gained. They’re wanting to rise through the ranks and make a mark. So, what skills were these new professionals missing?
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Twenty year olds entering the workplace in 2015 will be 65 in 2060. What will the world of work and benefits look like then? From cataclysmic predictions of mass starvation as foretold in 1970s book The Population Bomb by Paul R Ehrlich, to Tomorrow’s World-style projections that every home will have a robotic maid, predicting the future
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By Ranjit Isaac Future-proofed careers will be human contact-based professions such as education, caring, and nursing (the latter may also grow with an ageing population). But these three are historically low-paid, and Stephan Bevan, director, workplace effectiveness, The Work Foundation, suggests they will remain so, especially if there is an over-supply of people chasing
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