By , we'll likely be living in a world where artificial assistants help us with almost every task, not unlike the way email tries to finish spelling a word for users today. Maguire says it will be like having an assistant working alongside you, taking on tasks at which the human brain does not excel.
The U. And they won't necessarily have to take time away from any one of those jobs for workforce training or to gain additional certifications related to their fields. Instead, they'll partner with machines for on-the-job learning, wearing an augmented reality headset that will give them the information they need in real-time to get the work done.
And forget about traditional human resources departments or the daunting task of looking for a job on your own. In the future, the job might come to you. Potential employers will draw from different data sources, including online business profiles and social media streams, to get a sense of a person and their skill set. Maquire says there's already a lot of activity around turning employment into a matchmaking endeavor, using artificial intelligence and deep learning to help the right person and the right job find each other.
In theory, this kind of online job matching could lead to less bias and discrimination in hiring practices. These were not quite "jobs" per se and in many cases amounted to a form of indentured servitude. However, the practice of apprenticeship goes back all the way to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi BC. With the industrial revolution and the opening of large factories in America, job openings became plentiful.
However, a job interview consisted of showing up at the door of the factory and hoping to get picked on that particular day. It wasn't truly until the s that there were enough college-educated individuals entering the workforce that employers started to realize they could be a bit more selective. But the man who "invented" the modern job interview is probably a name familiar to you: Thomas Edison. Work in the Age of Data. Technology Visionaries.
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