100 professions of the future

Trends studied the forecasts of Local and foreign futurologists and compiled a list of the most in-demand professions in the next 30 years. These are professions from 19 industries: from medicine and transport to culture and space

What are the professions of the future

Professions of the future – these are professions at the junction of several disciplines that will appear in 15-20 years. Such professions will complement or replace existing ones.

For example, truck drivers will be replaced by unmanned vehicles. The car will drive itself, and the person will develop, control and maintain this transport. At the same time, the profession of a drone operator will appear, and the scope of jurisprudence will expand to unmanned vehicles.

Here are some of the professions of the future:

• Online therapist
• Genetic engineer
• Biopharmacologist
• Green Cities Architect
• Time manager
• Igromaster
• Media cop
• Space tourism guide
• Eco-analyst in the extractive industries

Why follow the professions of the future

If you do not master the profession of the future now, you will be replaced by a robot or artificial intelligence, so in the future you will be left without a job. According to the report Jobs of Tomorrow [1], more than 75 million people in the world may be left without work due to robotization and automation.

Oxford believes [2] that robots will perform half of all routine work in 15–20 years. At the same time, 53% of workers are sure [3] that their work will change a lot or become obsolete in the next ten years, and 77% of people will be retrained and change their profession. Not everyone will be taken into the future.

What is included in the catalog of professions of the future

To understand the professions of the future, you need to study them. Trends studied the forecasts of futurologists and researchers around the world, compiled their list of 100 professions of the future. The list includes realistic professions that have already appeared or will appear before 2030 in 19 industries.

The task of extending human life and improving its quality will require specialists of the widest profile: from doctors treating patients at a distance, and personal health managers to professionals in the field of genetics and transplantation.

Professions of the future in medicine

To prolong life and improve its quality, specialists of the widest profile will be required: from doctors treating patients at a distance, and personal health managers to professionals in the field of genetics and transplantation.

1. An online therapist

    is a doctor who conducts a preliminary diagnosis of a patient in order to identify signs of illness in him and send him to the right specialist. He checks the progress of therapy and recommends measures for disease prevention online.

2. An expert in personalized medicine

    is, in fact, an ordinary attending physician, but with in-depth knowledge of genetics: he knows how to conduct and interpret DNA tests.

3. A bioethicist

    is a specialist at the intersection of medicine, technology and law. Organizes communication between a person or his relatives and doctors, lawyers, geneticists in order to solve complex biomedical cases.

4. Cyberprosthesis and Implant

   Developer  is a medical engineer who works with designers and roboticists to create bionic prostheses.

5. A brain implant specialist

    is a person who designs, selects, configures, and maintains devices that are connected to, or even placed inside, a patient’s head.

6. A medical marketer

    is a specialist in the market promotion of companies and enterprises from the healthcare sector.

7. A genetic engineer

    is a scientist who works with the genes of living organisms.

8. Biohacking and Programmed Health Specialist
9. A medical robot operator

    is a specialist who programs and configures diagnostic, medical, surgical and other robots that help doctors perform various procedures, and also knows how to control them.

Professions of the future in ecology

Environmentalists will soon be influencing local weather and the global climate. They will fight pollution of the planet smartly and profitably, and even learn how to give accurate short-term forecasts for earthquakes and other natural disasters.

10. Ecological Footprint Reduction Specialists
11. Eco-evangelist

     is an educator and mentor in the field of environmental protection and conscious consumption. Can work both with organizations and with individuals, for example, with schoolchildren.

12. Green transport engineer
13. Recycling Specialist 
14. An urban gardene is a person who is engaged in landscaping a metropolis.
15. Eco leader
16. An eco-auditor is an independent expert who checks the environmental friendliness of enterprises, buildings and other infrastructure and facilities.

Jobs of the future in information technology

IT is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. Digital technologies have penetrated into all spheres of human life. We are surrounded by data, so the field of information technology guarantees jobs for specialists who know how to work with them: from a data journalist to a data architect.

17. An IT evangelist  is a promoter of breakthrough technologies: he talks about breakthroughs in the field of IT to the widest possible audience.
18. A data journalist  is a specialist who analyzes and collects big data in order to prepare articles, notes and other formats of journalistic materials, including interactive ones, based on them.
19. The digital transformation leader  is a senior manager responsible for improving, correcting current processes and creating new products and directions using digital tools, methods from marketing and business intelligence.
20. An IT architect  is a developer with extensive experience in implementing commercial projects, who is able to lay the architecture of a complex IT system, turning the necessary software features into a structured solution in accordance with the technical requirements and business objectives of the customer.
21. A digital linguist  is a specialist in processing data in languages ​​that are natural for algorithms and neural networks.
22. IT and AI ethicist  is an expert dealing with the ethical issues of algorithms and artificial intelligence: from the responsibility of AI for illegal actions to the recognition of its intellectual property rights.
23. Digital Waste Disposer

Professions of the future in biotechnology

An industry that stands at the junction of animate and inanimate nature. Experts predict limitless opportunities to create completely new microorganisms that will help make significant breakthroughs in medicine, biology and related fields. Biotechnology will help solve the problems of mankind with the help of living systems. For example, to create new sources of energy, materials and genes.

24. Biopharmacologist
25. Synthetic biology engineer
26. Cyber ​​Organism Designer
27. Extinct Species Restoration Specialist  – A geneticist who specializes in recreating extinct species.

Jobs of the future in robotics

About 68% of world-class entrepreneurs believe [4] that the future of business is the joint work of humans and artificial intelligence. People are increasingly transferring heavy, dangerous, monotonous and ultra-precise work to machines. But the success of global robotization will be directly related to the success of roboticists – those people who will invent and give a “profession” to “smart” assistants who accompany a person from birth to old age.

28. Robot developer
29. Lawyer in the field of robotics
30. Robotic systems operator
31. Composite engineer

Professions of the future in agriculture

Modern technologies – genetics, 3D printing, artificial intelligence and robots – will free millions of people employed in agriculture from heavy physical labor. They will transfer the cultivation of vegetables and fruits from the fields to mini-farms on the roofs of urban high-rise buildings and forever remove the problem of mass slaughter of livestock. For example, meat grown in a test tube from a single animal cell or printed on a 3D printer will repeat all the taste qualities of the original.

32. Agro-cybernetic
33. A GMO agronomist  is a specialist who deals with changing the genes of crops.
34. 3D food printing engineer
35. Operator of automated agricultural machinery
36. agricultural ecologist

Professions of the future in transport

Safety, sustainability and AI logistics are the main engines of change in the transport sector of the future. Ground services will remotely control unmanned sea and air liners. Drivers of urban transport will be able to find the shortest path using the prompts of “smart” roads and literally fly around rare traffic jams.

37. Designer of new modes of transport
38. Professional drone pilot
39. Lawyer in the field of unmanned vehicles
40. Cross logistics operator
41. Unmanned aircraft engineer

Jobs of the future in energy and resources

The faster minerals are depleted, the more actively humanity is looking for a replacement – new and renewable energy sources. Experts in this industry will learn how to generate energy using the weather or the movement of the human body, stopping the destruction of the planet.

42. Alternative and renewable energy specialist
43. A meteorologist  is a specialist who optimizes electricity generation thanks to weather forecasts.
44. Wearable Energy Designer
45. Eco-analyst in the extractive industries
46. Energy system developer

Professions of the future in construction

Clean materials, robotics and artificial intelligence will change the way we build entire cities. Architects are already thinking about the energy consumption of houses so that they provide themselves with the help of wind, sun and groundwater. Buildings can be assembled from prefabricated 3D-printed elements, and ordering “smart” technology will become as commonplace as choosing new wallpaper and curtains.

47. A BIM designer  is a specialist who creates the visual part for the Building Information Model: puts all the documentation together, translates the drawings into 3D, and fills each block with detailed information.
48. Smart home infrastructure designer
49. Specialist in restructuring, strengthening old building structures
50. 3D printing designer in construction
51. The architect of “green” cities  is a specialist who designs buildings, neighborhoods and entire cities, taking into account environmental requirements and with an eye to the principles of sustainable development.

Professions of the future in light industry

The fashion industry of the future will directly depend on advances in related high-tech fields. For example, light industry specialists will teach shoes and clothes to recharge numerous gadgets built into everyday wardrobe. It is they who will make jeans and sneakers “wash out” on the go and help you print clothes exactly according to your own figure.

52. Technostylist
53. New fabric designer
54. Clothing Recycling Specialist  is an ecologist with a background in materials science who develops and implements technologies for the optimal recycling of old clothes.

Professions of the future in the social sphere

Not every person will be able to confidently keep up with the changes that the world is waiting for on the threshold of a new reality. Experts will come to the rescue to help you find a common language with advanced contemporaries, “smart” machines and representatives of other cultures. For example, public moderators will become mediators between conflicting parties or people with completely different views.

55. A mediator of social conflicts  is a specialist who helps to resolve confrontations between groups of people in such a way as to find a way out in a peaceful way.
56. Specialist in adapting people with disabilities to work on the Internet
57. Social moderator
58. Migrant Adaptation Specialist
59. Crowdsourcing Specialist for Public Issues

Security professions of the future

In a world that has quickly become more dependent on data, the security of that data is becoming an important priority. According to the Cyberedge Group, in 2019, 78% of IT professionals reported cyberattacks [5]. A survey by The Myers-Briggs Company gives a figure of 64% [6]. The World Economic Forum in 2019 named cyber attacks and online fraud among the main problems facing society. Therefore, the professions in the field of security for the most part will be related to the security of these companies and individuals.

60. A cybersecurity specialist  is someone who ensures that an IT system is protected from hacks that lead to malfunctions and data leaks.
61. A cyberinvestigator  is an IT security specialist authorized to detect and stop cybercrime.
62. Specialist in overcoming systemic environmental disasters
63. personal security designer
64. Auditor and Security Coordinator

Professions of the future in business and finance

Blockchain and cryptocurrency will become commonplace in finance and business. At the same time, other assets are becoming more valuable: time, intellectual property, insights and strategies. To adapt in the future, businesses will have to learn to understand and predict it, make quick decisions and deal with change.

65. Multicurrency translator
66. Cryptocurrency bank operator
67. Intellectual property appraiser
68. A personal pension plan developer  is a specialist who helps to build an individual strategy for investing in a future pension. He selects suitable financial instruments for saving, based on income, client requests and his expectations from his own old age.
69. Talent investment fund manager
70. A trend watcher  is a specialist who studies changes in the economy, politics, science, culture and public life, and then, based on their analysis, issues strategic recommendations to businesses.
71. Corporate Anthropologist
72. time manager
73. Venture Capital Corporate Portfolio Manager

Professions of the future related to children’s goods and services

Children greatly influence society as a whole. For example, favorite cartoons and video games shape the values, interests and vision of the world of the future generation. Therefore, services and products for the children of the future will be developed as an educational product. Children remain the key to the future for big companies and brands, but more importantly, for global intelligence and humanity.

74. An expert on the image of the unborn child  – helps schoolchildren form personal development trajectories, selects courses, circles and sections in proportion to their interests and abilities. In fact, an expert at the intersection of career guidance and pedagogy.
75. transmedia product architect
76. Children’s R&D Specialist
77. Children’s robotics designer

Professions of the future in education

Now we live in the context of continuous continuous learning – the concept of lifelong learning. Constantly learning and teaching will require new tools and approaches. The general educational system of education will inevitably give way to a personal approach to each pupil and student. At the same time, mentors and tutors of the future will recognize and develop the talents of each individual from an early age.

78. Educational trajectory developer
79. igromaster
80. Author of educational courses based on AI
81. Personal guide for education and career development
82. A mind fitness trainer  is a specialist who helps develop the client’s cognitive skills using special techniques.
83. Talent search and development expert

Professions of the future in mass media

In the work of specialists in entertaining and informing people, it is not so much the content that becomes more important, but the form of its presentation at the junction of real and fictional worlds. And the joint work of cultural figures and artificial intelligence is being transformed into a separate area of ​​mass media.

84. Info stylist
85. A virtual world designer  is a specialist in the creation of fictional realities and metaverses.
86. Augmented and Virtual Reality Engineer
87. Professions at the intersection of creative industries and artificial intelligence
88. A media police officer  is a law enforcement officer in the vastness of the network. Fights illegal content, cybercriminals, including those who commit crimes against a person (cyberbullying, stalking, Internet fraud).
89. Media software developer
90. A cross-cultural communication manager  is a specialist who helps multinational corporations work with foreign partners, taking into account the various cultural characteristics of this market.

Professions of the future in culture and art

The more people will transfer routine work to machines, the more people will begin to create copyright works of art. People will focus more on creativity, exploration, communication with other people and nature, rather than satisfying basic needs. Entire professional sectors will change, but new jobs will appear in the field of culture and art. At the same time, art will play a more important role in related areas: education, tourism, mass media.

91. Science artist
92. Collective art curator
93. Art Appraiser

Professions of the future in tourism and hospitality

The world’s economies are growing, so more people can afford to travel. There will be more tourists, but there are no more places on Earth. The tourism industry will face the challenge of satisfying the demands of travelers and making sure they come back again. This will require rethinking the approach to travel planning and organization, customer service and space design.

94. The director of individual tours  is a specialist who develops recreation programs based on the needs and capabilities of a particular person. All the time of the tour, he stays in touch and accompanies clients virtually.
95. Robotics concierge
96. Developer of intelligent tourism systems

Professions of the future in space

What science fiction writers have been in the dream about for so long can come true in the coming decades – humanity will begin to conquer deep space.

97. A commercial spacecraft pilot  is a specialist who controls a spacecraft and is responsible for the safety of the passengers on board. In tourist flights into space, he also acts as a guide and instructor.
98. A guide in the field of space tourism  is a specialist in the development and selection of a program for space travelers, accompanies a tourist or a group during a trip and conducts an excursion.
99. Life support systems engineer
100. Narrow specialists in the field of space

How to master the profession of the future

To choose the profession of the future, focus on the professions on the list that employers are already looking for. For example, being an infostylist sounds nice, but it won’t help you find a new job this year. But a medical marketer is a profession of the future with real demand in the present. If you decide to change your professional area, dedicate a year to mastering a new one, throwing all your strength into existing skills.

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