Video stream. Professions 4.0: what will be the work of the future

We will not be able to assess the scale of the “coronacrisis” soon, but already now it is becoming obvious that unemployment is rising, a wave of layoffs and layoffs. That is why now is the time to think about how to radically change your life.

We have already said that in the conditions of quarantine and the epidemic, new technologies are emerging, which means that new qualified personnel are also needed. What is already relevant now and what will be in demand in the future? What professions will be gone forever? What needs to be studied and what resources to use in order to effectively acquire new knowledge? How else to “pump” yourself? What skills and qualities will become the most important? The host of our Industry 4.0 YouTube channel, Nikolai Dubinin, discussed this with experts on April 21.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry has warned of the risk of ruin for 3 million entrepreneurs due to the virus.

Alexei Zakharov, the founder of Superjob, is sure that 30 million of our countries will lose their jobs by the end of April.

PROFESSIONS OF THE FUTURE

In a few years, new professions will appear. For example:

• Digital Curator (helps people set up their virtual environment, banking and telemedicine)
• Organizer of virtual business tours
• Virtual Habitat Designer
• freelance biohacker
• human body designer
• Lawyer on robotics
• Personal data curator
• …

What professions are in demand today? According to Evgeny Lebedev, Marketing Director of Yandex.Practice, these are, for example:

• Python developer
• Algorithm Specialist
• Data analyst
• Web developer
• Test Engineer
• Data-Science Specialist
• Designer

Must Have today is to be able to make decisions based on numbers.

Andrey Konyaev, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences and science journalist, is sure that in the next five years the most demanded profession will remain a programmer. According to Konyaev’s forecasts, due to the coronavirus people will reconsider their attitude to existing professions – for example, to biologists, virologists, psychologists.

ROBOTS

During the coronavirus, two trends are observed:

Sberbank has unveiled a prototype disinfection robot that can work not only in hospitals, but also in offices and schools.

The University of Southern California has its own sanitizer robot, which not only rolls around the premises and disinfects them with an ultraviolet lamp or sprays chemicals, but even moves objects with a mechanical hand, disinfecting hard-to-reach places.

What professions related to robots are in demand now? Alisa Konyukhovskaya, Executive Director of the National Association of Robotics Market Participants, notes that the robotics market is divided into two parts: the market for industrial robotics and service (professional, personal robotics).

In the industrial robotics market, you need:

• Robotic designers
• Programmers
• Specialists in the implementation of robots in the production process
• Operators of the robotic complex
• Qualified Economists

The service robotics market needs:

• Robotics
• Programmers
• Designers
• Human-Machine Interface Designers

In our country, about 50 universities teach in the specialty “Mechatronics and Robotics”. But if you want to develop in this area, it is better to go to a robotics manufacturer – they have more competence than universities. The basic course on programming industrial robots takes two days and costs about 100 rubles. A secondary education is required to complete the course. And to learn how to integrate robots into production, you need to take a 5-day course. You can also watch free webinars from manufacturers. Announcements can be viewed on the Facebook page of the National Association of Robotics Market Participants.

Top 3 Robot Creator Competencies, according to Alisa Konyukhovskaya:

GAME DESIGN

In December 2019, Kitchen in the District released Future Book, in which it outlined trends for the near future. Experts the Kitchen team spoke to predict that 5G will usher in an era of home entertainment. For example, fast Internet will allow you to download a movie that weighs 40 GB in just 40 seconds.

According to the creative director of the WNM.Digital agency Daniil Efimov, the global entertainment industry will grow by an average of 4,3% every year until 2023. The Top 5 Fastest Growing includes three gaming categories:

• VR
• Cybersport
• Video Games

Thanks to 5G will develop cloud gaming. A game is launched on a powerful computer in the data center, which is broadcast live on the user’s laptop. All commands it sends are processed in the cloud. That is, to play, a person will not need a powerful computer. This will lead to an increase in the number of users who play games.

How much do game designers earn? Dmitry Vesnin, game designer, lecturer at the Higher School of Economics and the Skillbox online university, author of Backtracking, a telegram channel about computer games, notes that a novice game designer receives about 80 rubles. You don’t have to know how to program to become a game designer.

What kind of specialists does the gaming industry need?

• Directed by
• Screenwriters
• Designers
• Programmers

BIOTECHNOLOGIES

Bioinformatics is the application of mathematical models to biological, genomic big data.

Molecular modeling – the junction of IT and biotechnology. Computer models try to understand whether a substance will interact with some target. Scientists can’t test a new drug millions of times in a test tube, but they can model the reaction with an algorithm.

According to senior researcher at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Biological Sciences Alexander Panchin, The following professions are developing in the field of biotechnology:

• Molecular Dynamics Specialist
• Specialist in artificial intelligence and data science at the interface with molecular biology
• Synthetic chemists

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