VietNamNet Bridge - Reports say 65 percent of future jobs for those born from 1995 to 2012 have yet be created. 

65 percent of future jobs have yet be created

The current jobs that require at least 50 percent of necessary technological knowledge will require 77 percent in the future.

Which jobs will disappear in 5-10 years, and which new jobs will arise? How should students prepare to obtain job opportunities in the future? These are the biggest concern of educators and parents in the context of the 4.0 industrial revolution.

The current jobs that require at least 50 percent of necessary technological knowledge will require 77 percent in the future.

Tran Yen Dinh from Microsoft Vietnam affirmed that all industrial revolutions will bring big changes in the labor force structure in all fields. 

In healthcare, for example, surgery success now depends on surgeons’ qualifications. But in the future, the surgeons will be replaced with robots. 

Meanwhile, manned vehicles will be replaced with self-propelled machines.

Ngo Quang Vinh, an education and healthcare expert from ADB, cited statistics from sources affirming that the number of new jobs in the future will be higher than the number of old jobs that disappear.

“It is difficult to say which jobs will be created. But I can say that the jobs that require manual work and repeated operations will no longer exist and will be replaced with blockchain,” Vinh said.

“The jobs that need knowledge, interactions, communication, critical thinking and creativity will be created,” he said, adding that in the US, half of the new jobs in the last 30 years had never existed before. 

Le Tue Minh, chair of WellSpring school system, said people still were not sure about jobs in the futures, but can only make predictions. However, in the future, general education will play the most important role in preparing students for their future.

“Don’t impose your knowledge and understanding on your children, because the world in the future will be quite different from what we are now living in,” Minh said.

Phi Mai Chi, who runs Ikigai, a not-for-profit career education project, has a son who refused an opportunity to study overseas and gave up study at university. He said that parents should let their children make their own decision about the jobs they will take in the future.

Experts all say that the job trend in Vietnam will be in line with the trends in the world, so Vietnam needs to prepare its labor force when students begin go to general school.

They also said that the major skills needed are logical thinking, critical thinking, creativity, capability of working in teams, and communication skills.