Monday, May 18, 2015

Jobs and Employability

What is employability?

This term can have several different meanings; the most popular one being that is demonstrates a person’s capability for gaining and maintaining employment depending on a person’s knowledge, skills and the abilities they possess.  However, to innovators and thinkers they believe that it can transcend beyond that meaning.

What does having a job entail?  Does it mean having that feeling of security that comes with the relief that you will go to bed warm?  Does it mean knowing that you will never again be hungry…never again know what it means to sleep in the cold? 

Jobs are important, not because it gives people things to do but because it’s a necessary part of life.  Without a job, a family won’t be able to afford even the simplest of everyday needs such as food or a place to live.  In the future will it be possible that most jobs will be able to be done by robots?  If so…then where does that leave humans?  Nowadays humans are being forced to find new ways to challenge that very way of thinking, in the hopes that when the time comes they will be able to keep a job. 

I4J (Innovation for Jobs) is a non-profit company that works with innovators from around the world to explore the transition into a better working economy.  Partnering with Galactic Public Archives, we have put together a series of videos entitled: New Narratives: Innovation for Jobs.

This series focuses on investigating a behind-the-scenes look that’s headed in the direction that’s towards the future of the human working class.  Each video involves discussions that center around certain items such as education, and the economy.   



Let us know what you think about the future of jobs...

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