The typical Australian will change careersfive to seven timesduring their professional lifetime, by some estimates.
Jobs disappearing is not a new phenomenon have you seen an elevator operator recently?
but the pace of change is picking up, threatening to leave large numbers of workers unemployed and unemployable.
New technologies also create new jobs, but the skills they require do not always match the old jobs.
The details arepublishedin PLOS ONE.
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The map below visualizes the similarity of the top 500 skills.
Each marker represents an individual skill, colored according to one of 13 clusters of highly similar skills.
The similarity between the top 500 skills in Australian job ads in 2018.
Highly similar skills cluster together.
The figure below visualizes the similarity between Australian occupations in 2018.
Visibly similar occupations are grouped closely together, with medical and highly skilled occupations facing the lowest automation risk.
The similarity between occupations, colored by technological automation risk.
The darker the square, the higher the probability of making the transition.
A small piece of the transitions map, with 20 occupations.
Transitions occur from columns to rows, and darker blue shades depict high transition probabilities.
Our system can help identify those.
The width of each band in the diagram shows the number of openings available for each occupation.
The first six transition recommendations for are all non-essential services, which have unsurprisingly experienced decreased demand.
The benefit of smoother job transitions
While the future of work remains unclear, change is inevitable.
If labor transitions occur efficiently, there are significant productivity and equity benefits for everyone.
The methods and systems we put forward here could significantly improve the achievement of these goals.
