Participate on campus - Responding to a Changing World: Future Proofing Skills Workshop

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University of Melbourne, 780 Elizabeth Street, Parkville, VIC 3010

Future proof your skills to effectively respond to our ever changing work world with this graduate level workshop.

The future of work will be increasingly unstable with the OECD highlighting four megatrends shaping the future of work: Technological progress, demographic changes, globalisation and value changes.

This workshop will introduce students to these major changes, with a particular focus on technological disruption, in the future of work and help them identify which skills will be increasingly in demand to future proof their careers. Critically, the future of work will increasingly demand soft skills – empathy, teamwork, creativity and leadership – for which graduate Arts students are well positioned. This workshop will help students identify which skills will be of increasing demand in their workplaces and future industries as well as map how their jobs will change in response to technological and societal changes.

Finally, we will provide a deep dive into one critical skill for the future of work – adaptability – while also building capacity in creativity, teamwork and leadership. At the end of this workshop, students should be able to:

- Understand the major technological changes in the future of work

- Link these macro trends to skill changes in their jobs and future careers

- Deepen knowledge on the soft and hard skills necessary to be prepared for the future of work

- Build capacity in key future of work skills – adaptability, creativity, teamwork and leadership

Led by Prof Leah Ruppanner, Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, this 4-hour workshop offers graduate students from the Faculty of Arts an opportunity to future proof their skills as they transition into the workforce.

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The Future of Work Lab is committed to ensuring the future of work is equitable. As leaders in the field, we provide innovative understandings of the intersections of inequality, technology and policy to create more equitable work futures.

The future of work is here now. Our integrated approach draws from Sociology, Business and Economics and Computer Information Systems to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of an increasingly changing work world.

We are committed to ensuring workers and employers are prepared for the future of work through a comprehensive understanding of how the future of work will impact people, places, governments, organisations and technologies.