To consider the skills and qualities needed for some 'future jobs'.
We live in a changing world. Over the last twenty years the job market has changed, with new technology, a focus on knowledge, and a more globalised market. It is reasonable to think that the job market will continue to evolve.
Students will be able to identify the skills and abilities needed for a variety of occupations.
As the job titles are quite high level occupations, this activity is probably best suited to more able students.
Access to Jed and the internet.
Ask the class to identify four jobs that were common twenty years ago and are now less so, and four jobs that are more common now than before.
You are asked to write a new job record for Jed, using the same headings and style of writing that Jed uses, for one of the following new job titles:
You may need to use the internet as a source of information to decide exactly what these jobs are, but you may be able to complete much of the job record by referring to similar existing job titles in Jed.
What elements of the new jobs are the same as currently available jobs?
What can students do in school to develop the skills and abilities needed for future work?
Where and when will we be working in the future? (working from home, flexible working, teleconferencing)
Having completed the job records use the information to design a newspaper advertisement for the situations vacant page of a national newspaper.