No, robots and other new technologies are not going to make the human worker obsolete. On the contrary, they are spawning entire sets of new careers, according to the World Economic Forum's report, "Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy." "The Fourth Industrial Revolution is creating demand for millions of new jobs, with vast new opportunities for fulfilling people's potential and aspirations," the WEF writes. "However, in order to turn these opportunities into reality, new sources of data and innovative approaches to understand emerging jobs and skills, as well as to empower effective and coordinated large-scale action are urgently needed across the globe." Related: 10 emerging careers with high growth potential The organization's New Metrics CoLab in its Platform for the New Economy and Society worked with data scientists at Burning Glass Technologies, Coursera and LinkedIn, to determine emerging professions of the future, the reasons behind their emergence and what skills will be required by these professions. "New computing and data capabilities are offering unprecedented insights into the labor market," the WEF writes. "By live-casting the actual labor market and developing new skills taxonomies that reflect the skills language in use across that market, the metrics shared by private sector companies provide a critical new tool which can help orient employers, governments and workers who wish to plan an adequate, timely reskilling and upskilling agenda." The jobs of tomorrow are organized within seven emerging professional clusters -- Care Economy, Data and AI, Engineering and Cloud Computing, Green Economy, People and Culture, Product Development, Sales and Marketing and Content. Check out the top professions within the seven clusters and the key skills needed to be proficient in those roles in the slideshow above. Read more: |

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