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Survival Calls during Careers in the Digital Age

Curator: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

As I shared with my friend, Aviva Brecher, MIT’68, an article that featured my career in May 2018 in the Alumni Spotlight of the Hebrew University,

My friend wrote the following:

From: Aviva Brecher
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 9:40 AM
To: Aviva Lev-Ari
Subject: Re: Article about Aviva Lev-Ari ­in Spotlight of American Friends of the Hebrew University

Aviva:

You have an impressive education and career track with major reorientations. I too have reoriented and “reinvented” my career within the Applied Physics realm: from solid state physics and magnetism, to Lunar and Planetary Science and meteoritics in the Apollo age, to Earth Sciences and to applied topics like nuclear waste isolation and their advanced transportation technologies and environmental impacts.

 

I was very intrigued to further elucidate what actually are the Survival Calls during Careers in the Digital Age. That exploration was inspired by an additional new direction added to MIT Tech Review called: Clocking In, A daily look at the workplace of the future. 

In their 2/21/2018 article “The fastest transition humankind has experienced” 

The reader is welcome to their annual list of the 10 technology advances they think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come.

• Genetic Fortune-Telling

We spotted Genomics technology and published a book about it

• VOLUME 1: Genomics Orientations for Personalized Medicine. On Amazon.com since 11/23/2015

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018DHBUO6

In Clocking In article on 3/9/2018 Robert Rubin is interviewed on How to prepare for the future of work. He runs the Hamilton Project, a DC-based think tank.

Rubin: McKinsey Global Institute put out a report recently in which they projected roughly one-third of American workers might have to change jobs or vacate the jobs they have by 2030. They also said that they thought that there would be opportunity for all kinds of increased employment in existing areas—like education, management, and technology—that will need more people. But, you need a lot of public policy to support that transition.

Labor Productivity and Automation

Autor, David, and Anna Salomons. 2018. “Is automation labor-displacing? Productivity growth, employment, and the labor share.” BPEA Conference Draft, Spring.

https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/is-automation-labor-displacing-productivity-growth-employment-and-the-labor-share/

Technology Pipeline and Gender

• The US tech talent pipeline shows promising signs for a more gender diverse future. (TR)
• Women do hold the majority of STEM jobs—in Iran. (Quartz)

Clocking In, in their article on 6/7/2018, How we measure the gig economy matters

The Aspen Institute has put together its own data repository on gig work, and found that roughly 30 percent of the US workforce depends on the gig economy in some form.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its long-awaited 2017 Contingent Worker Supplement this morning—a huge event for us data nerds!—giving us a “current” (the data is from May 2017) view of gig work in the US. But there are a few problems with the findings.

Why it matters: Had the BLS report found a large jump in nontraditional workers, it might have caught the eye of Congress and motivated lawmakers to pass legislation that to protect and support gig economy workers (emphasis on the “might,” but still). Instead the report could be used to argue the gig economy isn’t as big or important as it’s cracked up to be.

We foresee the future to have major opportunities in the Expert Consultancy private sector. By 2030 freelance consultants with very deep expertise will hold the knowledge that corporations need for in-house technology development. It will bring a golden age to a new breed of PhD level experts foot loose providing services to multiple employers. It is a version of the gig economy at the highest pay rate per hour.

With generous funding and top-tier jobs, China seeks to lure science talent from abroad

By Dennis Normile Jun. 5, 2018 , 3:35 PM

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/generous-funding-and-top-tier-jobs-china-seeks-lure-science-talent-abroad

We foresee the future of Markets experiencing brain drain and other Markets experiencing brain influx. The knowledge worker will trade his skills on a global scale and will be geographically, foot loose.

The knowledge worker will be subjected to unique survival calls, will have multiple careers in a life time and will re-invent their avocation and the skill offering per an unprecedented fast pace of structural changes in the economy and fluctuation in demand for ever newly minted talent.

• While “Agility” was the pace of the 90s,
• the 2020s will be the decade of “re-orientation driven by technological innovation of Artificial intelligence embedded in tools performing tasks by automation and a new era for robotics empowered by rule-based decision support software, actually, autonomous decision making, remotely supervised. 

In that light, I submitted a story pitch to Clocking In:

From: MIT Technology Review <pitches-and-tips@technologyreview.com

To: Aviva Lev-Ari <AvivaLev-Ari@alum.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 3:37 PM

Subject: Re: It is a Case Study for Clocking In about Survival Calls during Careers in the Digital Age – An AGE like no Other, also known as, DIGITAL

We have received your news tip or story pitch. Thank you!

Our editors review every item submitted, and we’ll be in touch if we’d like to pursue your submission or learn more. 

Thanks for your interest in MIT Technology Review.

 

Supporting material to the story pitch include the following:

• Thriving at the Survival Calls during Careers in the Digital Age – An AGE like Other, also known as, DIGITAL

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2018/06/11/thriving-at-the-survival-calls-during-careers-in-the-digital-age-an-age-like-no-other-also-known-as-digital/

• Reflections on a Four-phase Career: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN, March 2018

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2018/03/06/reflections-on-a-four-phase-career-aviva-lev-ari-phd-rn-march-2018/

• Pioneering implementations of analytics to business decision making: contributions to domain knowledge conceptualization, research design, methodology development, data modeling and statistical data analysis: Aviva Lev-Ari, UCB, PhD’83; HUJI MA’76

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2018/05/28/pioneering-implementations-of-analytics-to-business-decision-making-contributions-to-domain-knowledge-conceptualization-research-design-methodology-development-data-modeling-and-statistical-data-a/

• Recollections: Part 2 – “While Rolling” is preceded by “While Enrolling” Autobiographical Alumna Recollections of Berkeley – Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD’83

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2018/05/24/recollections-part-2-while-rolling-is-preceded-by-while-enrolling-autobiographical-alumna-recollections-of-berkeley-aviva-lev-ari-phd83/

• Professional Self Re-Invention: From Academia to Industry – Opportunities for PhDs in the Business Sector of the Economy

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2018/05/22/professional-self-re-invention-from-academia-to-industry-opportunities-for-phds-in-the-business-sector-of-the-economy/

• Key Opinion Leader (KOL) in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence – Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN, as evidenced by

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2016/07/21/key-opinion-leader-kol-aviva-lev-ari-phd-rn-as-evidenced-by/

• Data Science is the Greatest Science! It is the Greatest Science for Women, as well

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2018/03/12/data-science-is-the-greatest-science-it-is-the-greatest-science-for-women-as-well/