Wednesday 18 April 2018

The shift from STEM to STEAM

Another stand out for me in the Deloitte 2018 Global Human Capital Trends referenced in my last post was the following on pages 41 and 42:

"Many of today’s fastest-growing jobs are in fields such as health care, sales, and professional services that are essentially human, but can be aided and augmented by machines. Indeed, the most in demand technical roles have shifted from STEM to STEAM, where the “A” stands for arts.

A recent Burning Glass study found that even data and analytics jobs now require skills such as writing, research, problem-solving, and teamwork. Scott Hartley writes in his book, The Fuzzy and the Techie, that the best technology and products come from innovations that blend the arts and sciences together:"

Who will you become?

What will you do next?

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Be remarkable.
Ian

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