CHAPTER 1: AUTOMATION: THE FUTURE OF WORK AND CAREER COUNSELLING

Automation and Careers Career counselors provide labor market information to their students and clients as part of their work, so access to and understanding of the current and future job market is critical for enabling counselors to expertly provide information about job trends and needs for both local and national levels. The second industrial revolution occurred largely in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, facilitated by the invention and wide-spread dissemination of electricity, steel foundries, and automated equipment such as the internal combustion engine and the cotton gin, for mass production of goods. Since machines are increasingly taking over basic pattern recognition and complex communications, the tasks left for humans are creating new ideas and concepts, involving very complex communication and large pattern recognition, that provide new ideas and examples and lead to innovative applications and advancements. Another analysis forecast within the McKinsey report stated that the most job losses during the next decade would occur in office support, food services, production, and customer services, with lesser losses in construction, business and legal services, and installation repair.