For specialist, up to 50% of current jobs will disappear … – Time

The signs are everywhere. Daily arise applications, games, technologies that seem straight out of a design of the Jetsons, professional careers and salaries dropping to undertake, startup CEOs increasingly young and rich. At the same time, IBGE points decrease of 1.1% in total employment in the private sector with a formal contract between the second quarter of 2015 and the same period this year. Also according to the IBGE, industrial production in June 2016 was 18.4% lower than June 2013. The profile of the business that works changed.

“In 15 years from 40% to 50% of the professions that we know will not exist, and those who do not master the technology of its market will not have a job, “says Francesco Farruggia, president of Campus Party event in innovation, science, creativity and digital entertainment . “A tsunami will pass on people’s lives and move to the world of work. This transformation is linked to the processing capacity of the computers, which doubles every year, “says Farruggia.

For the teacher’s human resources Uninove, Cristiano Teixeira de Souza, brought technology a structural change in the world of employment. “The number of vacancies will decline in all sectors. This happened in the Industrial Revolution, when steam engines began to do the work of several men, “compares Souza. “Technology did not come to take jobs, but to improve. Now, the professional and the company did not update that is going to lose space, “says Souza.

Adaptation. The good news is that new business models and entrepreneurship gain strength in this scenario. “That story go to college, get a job, get married, buy a house, dog, have kids and retire over. The first world is realizing that. Brazil’s advantage is that here people know to turn to the crisis, “said Farruggia. Dudu Obregon, partner and “director of whatever” (whatever, in English) of perestroika, a “school of creative activities” which offers courses in management, communication and education, is the face of the professional who is replacing the executive someone wearing . He started “working life” at age 11 selling games and sound programs to friends and doing business on Orkut. “My PHD in managing people was when I was president of a crowd organized football at 15,” he says. At 21, he worked in the European Parliament and today, at 25, despises consulting proposals and values ​​”the life of the school curriculum.”

“I think the old model is completely outdated and that people are increasingly becoming aware of it. I can not at all imagine hitting point in any job that is, “said the coach Alana Trauczynski, 32, author of” Recalculating Route “and the eponymous program, which she helps people” take responsibility for their lives and to be co-creators of a new life, “he says.

Survival

For businesses, the search for innovation it is a strategy to survive in an environment of constant change. “The company is not considering changing its technology and management model will have a big problem up front,” says Sergio Gomes, managing partner of Ockham, a focused consulting in organizational transformation.

Gomes explains that when a company makes changes without changing technology or management model, are considered “incremental changes, low innovation.” When the change is significant at least one of these axes, it starts to improve. “We have already considered innovation. For example, using a new technology in its first market or adopt another sector management model in your business are innovations. ” For the consultant, however, it is best to make the change in both areas. “When the change affects the management model and technology, called ‘desruptiva innovation’, and then the competitors will have to run after this company,” says Gomes.

One of the difficulties facing the company, but on innovation, is the strength of the staff. “When the worker is within the organization, his tendency is to resist. It is part of the role of consulting help overcome this resistance, “he says. (LP)