My vision of the future: Job market © 2007 Serge de Art (Serguei Svistounov) Thanks to Roy Tomlinson, the editor of the english version 1. I believe that in the future there will probably be a much better appreciation of the innate abilities of everyday people. Men and women, according to Christian and Jewish teaching, are made in the image of God. Therefore, without being aware of it, everybody must be a latent genius. 2. In many cases nowadays it is obvious that people are working at jobs totally inappropriate to their natural talents. Consequently I would like to see society developing consultants trained to quickly identify the special talents of their clients of all ages; trained to guide them into their ideal occupation and to work out the optimum career plan for each one. These consultants should be readily accessible and should be provided, at no cost to the client, by Human Resources and Development Canada (HRDC). Clients should be made to feel comfortable, right from the start and should be encouraged to talk freely about their games and favourite toys as children, about the things they dreamed of, about their spiritual aspirations and about everything else that is closest to their heart. Such penetrating disclosures would enable the expert to make life-changing recommendations, specific to each client, rather than the stock prescriptions that are now prevalent. Say, walking in the street, I would like to drop in a decent place and to have a talk with a Guru about life, to tell him or her what kind of toys I played in my childhood, what I dreamed, and about any topic in the world. As a result of such creative discussion that fascinating person would say to me someting like the following: You need to do this and that, to work with a people of such and such kind, and you will see the world in a different way. Current tests, which I have a pleasure to see, just give a rough advices. 3. The consultant would then analyze the information provided, and recommend the most suitable career. If the client appeared to lack motivation and self-confidence, the consultant would refer the individual to a life or career coach who would attempt to rectify the deficiency. 4. PPC, PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL CARD (Multi-media electronic) Based on the HRDC analysis a card should be produced for every individual. It should be updated periodically to record change of age, advances in education, additional work experiences, changes of interests, aspirations and the like. Such a card could be scanned immediately by Job Consultants and by Corporate Human Resources Departments, for comparison with vacancies current in the general Job Market or in a specific organization. As a result, the compatibility of managements and staff should be greatly enhanced. 5. The PPC would therefore supplant the formal resume as the initial tool in the selection process. Live interviews would continue to be essential, following the mechanical screening. Because of the prior matching, interviews might even become pleasurable for all concerned. 6. Human beings are, by nature, inventive, especially when driven by necessity, and they will struggle to survive and improve themselves. Society would benefit hugely if this individual inventiveness,or entrepreneurship, in all ranks, were harnessed so that all people work together for the common good. As well the new technologies for a company organization in the near future promise to be interesting. People want not only living in paradise, but working as well. And we can create that, if we just stop and think. 7. The future of technical and ethical organization will be the subject of a subsequent paper. I would like to emphasize now, however, that people yearn for happy conditions in their jobs as well as in their private lives. This state of blessedness is within our reach, if only we apply our minds to it. It would be fine if everybody will be enterpreneur in the future, including those who work in and for the company or in a project. The history of the humankind is the history of individual freedom. 8. It is a case for discussion and consideration what happens in the job market of Canada today, I mean 80% of jobs are not publicized at all. Employers prefer to hire familiar people. The process is called networking in professional language. Therefore, many employers missed working force while many workers stay without jobs. Thus, we have a new market for creating new technologies helping them to meet each other. *