Don Peppers (founding member of Peppers & Rogers Group) has written a blog entry with some good advice for the Grad Class of 2013. He predicts that in the coming years computers will take over many positions that people currently working (shock!). He explicitly says that you should focus on two things:
1. Become an expert at dealing with interpersonal issues.
2. Become an expert at finding or discovering problems that need solving. He calls this creativity. I would argue that building the logic in software to automate the tasks he lists will also take a lot of creativity (and people working at jobs).
One of the things he alludes to in the article that I think is important is that there is a shift towards self-employment. Young people are going to need to learn how to manage their finances - not just personally, but they are going to need to know how to run their own little company.
Finally, the last point he makes in his article is a bit of a switch from the rest of his content, but very important. He essentially predicts that because of technology advancing the way it is, everything will continue to evolve and change at a faster rate. Young people need to be flexible and expect to learn knew things all the time. The status quo is not the new norm - flux is. And to get around that, Don suggests a soft skill - Always be trustworthy of others. At first I though this statement was a bit ambiguous, but he clarifies it with: Live your life in such a way that others can trust you. I couldn't agree more.
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