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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
Like we talk about lifelong education, and yes, I'm going to be a lifelong learner, but we don't have those systems set up.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
And so we have a ton of people falling through the cracks and not able to access precisely what they need in order to make progress in their lives.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
And so the main message, especially to younger generations, is that
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
We have to have a real mindset shift.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
And it's not a bad thing.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
It's not a bad thing to need to grow, right?
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
And you have these kind of constraints that are forcing you to grow and seek out new information.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
But unfortunately, also, the onus is on us as people to navigate this because we don't have that infrastructure set up.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
My whole work in life is trying to kind of begin to set up those regional –
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
And so in the near term, it's on us.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
We actually have to figure out how to surface and articulate our skills and translate them into the language of the job market, right?
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
And so it's a lot of work.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
It's unfortunately a lot on us, but we get to do it.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
We get to actually shape our future.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
And I think both of us have made multiple pivots in our lives.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
And we realize how amazing it is like once you're on the other side of it.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
But we also realize how much of it is kind of fortune, luck, you know, your network, all these things kind of coming together in a beautiful way that a lot of people don't have access to.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
So how do we make those kinds of changes?
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
social networks, professional networks more available to people to actually bring them along.
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How do you prepare for jobs that don't exist yet? A work expert and a YouTuber answer | Jon Youshaei and Michelle Weise
So that's the huge kind of lift for all of us is, unfortunately, it just kind of rests on us more.