Internet to be career driver by 2020
Six-nation online
survey reveals Asias youth are excited
for future digital
job prospects but
still prioritise
human-centered skills
BSS
Majority of Bangladeshi youths think digital technology, especially mobile and internet, would be the key totheir careers by 2020, according to a survey report.
In Bangladesh, 60 per cent ofmillennials said they were excited about the future opportunities in internet and digital sectors while a largest segment (30 per cent) stated that they were extremely excited, reports BSS.
Additionally 59 per cent youth in Bangladesh said that mobile/internet technology will be important in their career by 2020, mirroring the average of 63 per cent of youth aggregated in all six nations who agreed with this. However, only 1.4 per cent Bangladeshi youth said that technology is not really important for their future.
Telenor Group, the parent company of mobile phone operator Grameenphone, yesterday released the report after conducting an online survey across six nations in Asia, assessing millennials attitudes about their future career, technologys impact and the skills they need to be best prepared for the jobs of tomorrow.
The multi-market Jobs of the Future survey obtained 4,200 respondents aged 15 to 25, in Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Myanmar and Pakistan, said a press release yesterday.
It was conducted via targeting through the Telenor Group Facebook with a sample size of 700 secondary school, or university students per market used in the results analysis.
Our Facebook channel reaches an active, young - and largely Asian - following, so we felt that this would be a great place to pilot such a survey, said Sheena Lim, director of Social Media, Telenor Group.
The surveyed youth in all but one of the countries agreed that non-technical skills will also be important for jobs of the future.
The highest numbers of Bangladeshi (34 per cent), Pakistani (37 per cent) and Indian (36 per cent) youth
maintained that the most important skills to a great future job will be the ability to inspire others, and leadership capability.
Besides, all of the Bangladeshi youth surveyed agreed that robots will replace humans in many future professions, as did all the participating countries.
On which jobs robots would most likely replace humans in, 44 per cent of Bangla-deshi respondents predicted that the manufacturingand engineering industries would see the most machine takeovers.
Fascinatingly, 21 per cent of locals further said that the proliferation of robots will not affect them much.
The other surveyed nations were united with this sentiment that robots will replace humans in manufacturing or engineering led by Malaysia (44 per cent), forty-one per cent of surveyed in Myanmar, followed by 38 per cent in both Singapore and India, and 34 per cent in Pakistan.
Bangladeshs millennials also appeared enthusiastic for a technology-driven future. Youth in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and India all agreed with the statement: Its important to understand all kinds of technology - I want to know as much as I can! with Myanmar topping the scale at 34 per cent of respondents, and Bangladesh at 30 per cent.
Its fascinating to see that young adults not only revere technology and the opportunities it presents them, but also see themselves as compassionate and highly creative, said Yasu Sato,head of Digital Capabilities, People Development, Telenor Group.
