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Chances are you will have many jobs over the course of your career, but how do you prepare for the ones that don’t even exist yet? Education and workforce strategist Michelle R. Weise offers practical advice to help you identify the skills and talents to ace your next career change — and all the ones…

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Chances are you will have many jobs over the course of your career, but how do you prepare for the ones that don’t even exist yet? Education and workforce strategist Michelle R. Weise offers practical advice to help you identify the skills and talents to ace your next career change — and all the ones to come.

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47 Comments

  1. sophia isabelle

    September 26, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    We all need to future-proof our careers. In a few years’ time, it may even benefit us to the point of potentially succeeding in other fields and become the best at maintaining ourselves to the absolute fullest.

  2. BraytechSherpa

    September 26, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    This all sounds good, but the reality is your resume has to be made to beat the Applicant Tracking System. If you add in all this extra stuff you cant beat the Ai…

  3. Silvia Patiño

    September 26, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can’t sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance. It’s obvious we are headed for hyperinflation,it is always the poor who take the hit.

    • Aurelio Andrus

      September 26, 2023 at 4:39 pm

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      September 26, 2023 at 4:39 pm

      7969

    • Nanci Vidal

      September 26, 2023 at 4:40 pm

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    • Emmaline Shipp

      September 26, 2023 at 4:42 pm

      I reached out to invest with Christina Hannah, and her response was swift. Transaction was hitch free. invested $6500 dollars, and I’ve gotten $39,760 so far. Christine is the best.

    • carmensolescorrea

      September 26, 2023 at 4:43 pm

      Financial management is a very necessary topic that should not be overlooked. I cannot let my $100k savings vanish after putting in so much effort to accumulate them.

  4. Robb Page

    September 26, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    safeguard your career by forming a union and taking the power back from these worthless greedy corporations and their even worse (and inhuman) shareholders. this is the way.

    • trader2137

      September 26, 2023 at 6:06 pm

      what do shareholders have to do with it? “greedy corporations”? they provide you bread on your table… communist takes

    • Praise The Sun

      September 26, 2023 at 6:25 pm

      This is only right answer outside literal revolution

  5. Mish

    September 26, 2023 at 4:24 pm

    Good bit on transferable skills. Everyday skills are widely overlooked because we forget that they don’t only come from job-work experience.

  6. Krispyfort02

    September 26, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    Is there a training program for those of us who – for any number of the plethora of reasons why – have less than stellar “soft skills” to build up said skills in a safe and productively critical environment?

  7. abeismain

    September 26, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    Get college advisors to be better! To draw a concrete plan

  8. kindred misfit

    September 26, 2023 at 5:27 pm

    I’ve been thinking of changing jobs after being at my first serious job since graduating and I’m terrified. My current company doesn’t really have clear maps for advancement, but initiative is avoided because it means you’ll be put in charge of something going forward, but still won’t be recognized for it.

    • chris is good

      September 27, 2023 at 1:22 am

      how is being advancing to supervisor or manager not giving you recognition for what your currently doing, i myself have advanced in most jobs i’ve ever had but never too the manager role because i prefer logistics and B2B relationships, anyway hopefully your doing something you like to do and not just doing it because of the salary

  9. Rohit Prajapati

    September 26, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    Nobody as a person can use my genetics.

  10. Tìm Kiếm Đầu Tư

    September 26, 2023 at 6:09 pm

    Most of all, I really love your videos.❤❤❤

  11. trader2137

    September 26, 2023 at 6:10 pm

    – dont do stuff that AI can do

  12. Sandro Paz

    September 26, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    Considering how dehumanized the job hunting processes have become these tips are entirely useless.
    Just fill your CV with as many credentials as humanly possible. Make sure everything you do, bono or not, is accompanied by a certificate that you did “the thing”. Then when applying to a position make sure you CV uses the exact words for the skills the company is looking for, otherwise despite having the skills if they are named differently their HR might just filter your application because it doesn’t comply with the “buzzwords” they are looking for.

    Also clean up your social networks or private them, companies do check what you are about on social before any interviews.

    • Giorgi Zeikidze

      September 27, 2023 at 8:57 am

      you sound suspiciously unemployed to give such advice

    • Sandro Paz

      September 27, 2023 at 11:32 am

      ​@Giorgi Zeikidze gota love the irony of judging someone’s “employability” based on how they “sound like” in a response about how vapid and impersonal selection processes are nowadays, in a video pretending judgment of employability is mostly about personal interviews and not on hunches about how your CV and protfolio “looks like”. Thank you for proving my points right

  13. Praise The Sun

    September 26, 2023 at 6:27 pm

    My future proof carrer is the same one as every wealthy ghoul. I own things people need to live and I get unilaterally restrict access to them unless I am paid.

  14. Alfred Lee

    September 26, 2023 at 6:35 pm

    Except all this counts for zilch when your resume is being read by an machine that scans only for buzzwords and spits out a generic “thanks for your application” email.

    This also doesn’t account for recruitment bias based on your name, your country of origin, age and gender.

    Finally, this doesn’t acknowledge the bias recruiters have for clients already on their roster vs applications from the open market.

    • Carson Hunt

      September 27, 2023 at 3:40 am

      Recruiters, recruiting agencies are also a cancer. So are “behavior and personality tests”. Also cringe how if you don’t have an online presence you don’t get contacted.
      It’s always funny when I apply for jobs with a great resume/experience, and then I get a bunch of views to my LinkedIn profile (which is blank because LinkedIn is also cancer), and guess what, no contact after that. They all liked my resume enough to search me up, but then stop there if no bs online presence ? Won’t even give you a chance ? So dumb.

    • WhosThatGuy

      September 27, 2023 at 3:45 am

      Dude it’s a 4 minute advice video. There is no magic bullet for the worlds problems.

    • Melissa0774

      September 27, 2023 at 9:57 pm

      Yeah, I wish they’d just stop having people write resumes in the first place. But I think the only reason they still are a thing is because there’s a whole cottage industry of people giving resume advice and writing them for people and all that stuff. They’d lose their livelihood. In the internet age, there’s no reason why employers can’t just have applicants fill out custom tailored applications instead. Maybe you would still keep a basic resume or list of all your work experiences and contacts on your computer so you could use it to quickly auto fill that information on the applications, but that’s the only thing you should have to use it for. Each employer should write their own unique application forms with questions specific to the job and you should only have to submit the application, not any resume that you’ve written yourself. The applications should ask a lot more questions about your qualifications for the job, in a lot more detail, than most applications currently do now. Then IF the employer prefers, the applications COULD automatically generate uniform resumes for each applicant that have all the same information in the same order. This way, it takes out all that stupid guesswork about what font and format you should use, what information you should put vs. what you should leave out, whether or not you should list stuff like hobbies and interest, etc. But I don’t think that will happen anytime soon because there are to many so-called resume writing “experts” out there who make their living giving people advice about that stuff. If employers just used application forms instead, it’d be straight to the point and you’d know that you’ve given them everything they want.

  15. محمد البيه

    September 26, 2023 at 6:57 pm

    🌞Elon’s danger to America’s enemies has become three times greater than Trump

  16. 18-4025 Barath Kumar S

    September 26, 2023 at 7:07 pm

    Famous Last words…

    Useless video,next.

  17. NFP

    September 26, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    Watching

  18. Carmel Brain

    September 26, 2023 at 10:02 pm

    glib

  19. rabiatul

    September 27, 2023 at 12:44 am

    thank you for such an informative video. and the animation was soooo cuteeeee ❤❤❤

  20. Pawel Dlugosz

    September 27, 2023 at 1:13 am

    Coursera, Udemy, Skillshare, Khan Academy, FreeCodeCamp are a knowledge worker’s best friend.

  21. Vinzenz S

    September 27, 2023 at 1:59 am

    Ted, pls make more videos like this!

  22. bryce_murr_

    September 27, 2023 at 2:50 am

    It’s unfortunate that after this Coleman Hughes debacle, TED is showing how fraudulent their brand is becoming. They’ll be replaced eventually. Sad

  23. WhosThatGuy

    September 27, 2023 at 3:41 am

    This is actually good. There is so much career BS out there. This is practical, logical and thoughtful advise for the average person that’s also relatable to people in senior positions.

  24. Carson Hunt

    September 27, 2023 at 3:42 am

    Here’s a tip. Learn how to brown nose the right people, it’s how 80% of the good jobs are obtained. Don’t worry if you’re incompetent or unqualified, so long as you’re likable you’ll get it ❤

  25. Simo Ne

    September 27, 2023 at 5:23 am

    How we measure soft skills? How do I realistically describe them on my CV in absence of an objective methodology?

  26. Myles Stupp

    September 27, 2023 at 1:28 pm

    Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh… Sure

  27. BrickSpace9

    September 27, 2023 at 10:32 pm

    12? I can’t even get one job.

  28. Anirban Chatterjee

    September 28, 2023 at 1:13 am

    1. Highlight your Human Skills ( patience, crowd works, etc.)
    2. Become a skills translator (what does communication mean in different job roles)
    3. Find data in discomfort (what kind of jobs do you want to do, where are you right now and what course to do to get that job in future)
    4. Get picky! (find company that has internal growth and promotion)

    Now TED, give me a job! plisss :*

  29. Maritza

    September 28, 2023 at 12:25 pm

    I needed to listen to this one! Does anyone know her full name? Thank yo

  30. ulus

    September 29, 2023 at 1:13 am

    All this is taught to us since we are born in the Mediterranean. Looks like the west is just figuring this out.

  31. None

    September 30, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    It’s not the Government Officials that caused the problem, due to the fact they avoided the whole government shut down!

  32. Ridwan Marqas

    September 30, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    Opportunities are limited and jobs are rear to have especially in city of third world countries

  33. Krox

    October 2, 2023 at 8:32 am

    Jobs are human creation humans aren’t made for jobs

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