Skills Are Greater Than Jobs

January 17, 2019

Jacob Morgan

Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker, and Futurist

Many conversations these days revolve around AI and Automation and whether or not there will be any jobs left for humans in the future. But the truth is, jobs were made to be automated. Our problem is that we are focusing too much on jobs instead of skills, when really skills are greater than jobs in the future of work.

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When you focus on a job you typically only give yourself one career path. You may be able to grow in that career path, but it is still a solitary career path; you really limit yourself. Skills cannot be replaced by AI. If you focus on skills you open up many job options for yourself and you secure your place in the future of work.

If we want to future proof our lives, the mentality we have to have is that skills are greater than jobs.

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