Is your CV fit for 2030?

Many years ago I recall a business coach advising me to keep my typed CV to no more than two pages, preferably one. It comes as no surprise that the CV in that form is long dead, in favour of a host of social media and online searches.
However there may still be a place for a more formal or structured resume. Michael Page has put together a useful interactive tool
'to see what a typical CV in your sector looked like in 2000, what it looked like in 2018, and what it may look like in 2030'.

It's rather ironic that the typeface for '2030' looks like it's from Back to the Future'. Anyway, choose your sector, then your decade to see what skills you will need to drive your career into 2030.


The next KIN members' Quarterly workshop 'Work in 2030 - It may not be what you think' will be held on 28th March 2019 at The Shard London.

*Thanks to Steve Dale for suggesting this item

The Human Machine Interlace

No, 'The Human Machine Interlace' is not a typographical error.
The article by Kevin McCullough*, is a thought-provoking, optimistic piece about our future relationship with technology.

Amazing bio-mechanical developments are already available to provide external mechanical aids, such as exoskeletons to help heavy or repetitive lifting jobs. It won't be long before these are actually incorporated into the body - for example to help those with disability. If this seems fanciful, roboticist Hugh Herr believes that one day physical disabilities will not exist. Listen to him on the TED Radio Hour podcast 'Transformations'.

In his article, McCullough suggests that the myriad of articles and quizzes that ask 'will robots take your job?' is unhelpful and misleading. He posits that the purpose of AI is not to replace humans, but to make machines less dumb and remove the drudgery of repetitive or dangerous work to release human potential. As always, leading edge technology development leaves ethics and legislation trailing behind. If we can manage our way through this, the future is looking good for machine-augmented work.

*Kevin McCullough is one of the presenters at The Innovation Network' spring workshop 'Work in 2030 - It may not be what you think' to be held on 28th March 2019 at The Shard, London.