The rapid evolution of technology and the 4th industrial revolution are changing the work landscape, both at the level of academic knowledge and skills and the nature and environment of the work.
We are rapidly seeing robotics, artificial intelligence, the cloud, big data, programming come to the forefront of business and work interest, changing product and service markets, business models and the nature of work.
Several professions are being dismantled, others are changing, and new ones are being created, as the needs for knowledge and skills change, especially in the IT sector.
The Human Resources departments of companies in the Technology sector are already facing difficulty in filling highly technologically specialized positions, due to a lack of suitable candidates, in specialties such as:
At the same time, Academic Institutions, despite the increased number of graduates and the wide range of options they offer in terms of degrees, paths and specialties, appear not to be adapted and ready to satisfactorily supply the labor market with graduates equipped with the skills required by the evolution of Technology.
This gap in specializations and subjects that the market needs is being filled daily by the companies themselves or, at an individual level, by the employees or graduates themselves, who, through private education programs, webinars and e-learnings from specialized bodies, are trying to develop and become certified in the required skills.
As fields of work, the field of Technology and Information Technology is, and will continue to be for the next decade, the cutting edge.
The future is today! Technology is moving at breakneck speed and we all have a duty, at an individual, business or institutional level, to catch up with it, serve it and ultimately guide it towards a better future for Humanity.