Do You Have A Plan B if You Lose Your Job Because Of AI Tomorrow?
The headlines are screaming it: AI is taking jobs and the Great Ai-Layoff is under way! From AI-powered marketing & communication automation to algorithmic trading, artificial intelligence is streamlining tasks and displacing managers and employees across professions and industries. Even high-tech and ICT sectors, once considered safe havens, are feeling the pinch.
But here’s the thing: panicking won’t pay the bills. The question is: Do you have a Plan B if you lose your job because of AI tomorrow? If you’re worried about AI disrupting your career, here’s a wake-up call It’s time to be proactive.
Step 1: Assessing Your Skills & Skills Gaps
Not all new jobs are created equal in the eyes of AI. Take stock of your current skillset. What are you good at that a machine might struggle with?
- Creativity and Innovation: Machines can crunch data, but they can’t brainstorm like a human. Hone your creative problem-solving skills.
- Social and Emotional Intelligence: Building relationships, empathy, and negotiation skills are human strengths. Develop these “soft skills” to future-proof your career.
- Adaptability and Lifelong Learning: The key to survival in the AI age is the ability to learn and adapt. Embrace continuous relevant life long learning and stay curious about how to use new technologies.
Step 2: AI-Upskilling, AI-Reskilling & AI-Right-Skilling
The good news: AI isn’t just taking jobs, it’s creating new ones. Identify the in-demand skills for your next careerstep within or outside your current organization and bridge the gap with fast learning through relevant e-books, online courses, workshops, or university & business schools degrees and certifications if that is really necessary for your next careerstep.
- Become AI-literate: Understanding how AI works and how to use different AI-tools work will give you an edge, no matter your field.
- Specialize within your field: Niche expertise will be increasingly valuable, depending on your next careerstep ofcourse.
- Learn to work using AI: The future of work lies human-machine partnerships. Develop the skills to effectively use different AI tools to be more creative and productive:
Step 3: Relevant Networking and Building Your Personal Brand
Your network can be your net worth. Build strong relevant relationships with (former) colleagues and professionals in your current field or in your future job or role, including as independent entrepreneur, founder of a startup or working in a startups, a scalep or an SMEs.
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Actively manage your online presence with a professional website if you want to and relevant social media profiles on Linkedin for instance if you are looking for a new job or for new work.
Step 4: Embracing Change
Change is inevitable. Don’t see the different forms and applications of AI as a threat, see it as an opportunity to reinvent yourself. Embrace a growth mindset and view job displacement as a chance to explore new paths and potentially even find a more fulfilling career, including Leaving the corporate rat race. In AI-powered writing, AI-powered graphic design or in AI-powered marketing with your own digital blue ocean strategy in your new AI-powered business model.
Step 5: Relevant Learning & Life Long Learning
Relevant learning and especially relevant lifelong learning, fast learning and mobile learning are key to survive the Great AI Layoff and thrive in the new age of work. Defining and implementing your personal plan b will always have to be an individual exercise with an individual right-skilling plan with a different sense of urgency for all of us individually. You might have to pivot your learning strategy from personal growth strategy to personal survival strategy.
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