It is an increasingly evident reality that the speed at which the world is changing is faster and the job sector is no different in this respect. If you asked a child 15 years ago what they wanted to be when they grew up, the answer used to be similar: doctor, police officer, veterinarian, teacher... Jobs and professions that all parents and teachers knew about and knew to some extent what kind of studies the children needed to pursue to achieve their goal. Currently, this has changed and many of today's young people prefer to dream of being video game designers or dedicating themselves to 3D printing, but parents and many teachers do not know how to help with these professions. Knowing the STEAM careers is one of the first steps to knowing how to choose a career for the future.
The STEAM careers focus on a global approach that prepares students for a changing future full of innovations and continuous developments. In addition, they make students face real problems from different fields and have to learn to solve them with tools that they will later have to use in their professional lives. This methodology facilitates the job placement of young people, making them experience in advance the demands of the work environment.
According to the World Economic Forum, by the year 2020 more than 2.1 million STEM jobs will be created, and this number will continue to grow to 7 million by 2025.
But to think that STEAM careers only refer to typical engineering is a mistake. From specialists in Big Data or Blockchain, to geneticists and creators of smart foods, there are thousands of future jobs that can be developed thanks to these careers.
But where is the importance of arts and humanities?
We often talk about STEM careers and forget about the A for arts, but this approach is starting to change. It is estimated that 800 million current jobs are at risk of being automated and robotized by 2030. Faced with this discouraging panorama, a door opens for arts and humanities careers that cannot be replaced by a machine. Challenges such as ethics, legal regulation, and artistic development will continue to be driven by people and represent an important area of development that goes hand in hand with technology but without the need to study a technical-scientific career.
Although the future cannot be predicted, we can ensure that a change is happening in current education regarding how students will face the future, and this involves a union of technology and humanities to create professionals that are robot-proof.
