Professional Skills

Future-Workforce

Building a Roadmap for Effective Reskilling in the AI-Infused Workplace of Tomorrow

June 5, 2019

More than 60 percent of business leaders expect an increase in the number of roles requiring collaboration with AI by 2021, yet only three percent are planning significant investment in training programs. Here’s a look, and a few concrete steps, at how employers can ready the roadmap for reskilling current talent for the workforce of the future.

Future-Workforce

Why Gen Z Yearns For a Human Connection In the Workplace

Duration 0:44

43% of Gen Z would prefer face-to-face interactions at work, according to a Dell Technologies survey of 12,000 Gen Z secondary and post-secondary students about their readiness for the workforce. Social media entrepreneur, Natalie Zfat, discusses some of the interesting results.

Future-Workforce

Why Gen Z Needs Reverse Mentoring Opportunities In The Workplace

Duration 1:21

98% of Gen Z are using technology in school, according to a Dell Technologies survey of 12,000 Gen Z secondary and post-secondary students about their readiness for the workforce. Social media entrepreneur, Natalie Zfat, discusses some of the interesting results.

These High School Internships Are Transforming the Gen Z Work Experience

July 31, 2018

One of the most powerful solutions to help GenZ students gain the skills needed for unknown jobs of the future is to teach them how to learn. Explore the new corporate initiatives preparing GenZ students for the future workforce.

Digital Literacy

How Project-Based Learning Preps Students for Tech Careers

June 25, 2018

See why textbook learning is making way for more project-based learning, an emerging approach that takes STEM knowledge and students’ own interests and combines them into projects that demand individuality and critical thinking, communication and collaboration.

AI

Robo-Accountants Are an Accountant’s Best Friend

June 20, 2018

Since the inception of the profession, accountants have been “numbers crunchers” and “bean counters”—mathematically inclined individuals tasked to laboriously assemble a company’s financial data and calculate revenue and expenses toward closing the books each quarter. Now so-called robo-accountants are doing the hard work, freeing accountants from crunching the numbers to make sense of them for operational and financial decision-making purposes.

Professional Skills

How Schools and Startups Are Preparing for an Automated Future

June 13, 2018

As technology reshapes the way we work at warp speed, we need to change training methodologies. How do we prepare the next generation for jobs that haven’t yet been invented? What kind of skillsets will they need, when machines can do what humans do? What kind of tech training do they need today to be ready for the future workplace? And would it mean totally rethinking education to encourage creative problem finding and solving? To explore these questions, we look at schools and startups who are rethinking education to learn and explore the new world of robotics, AI and machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence

Explainable AI: Cracking Open Deep Learning’s Black Box

May 28, 2018

How does artificial intelligence actually work? What are the pitfalls of this technology that we need to know? Explore the complex nature of this “black box” technology as we break down what artificial intelligence really means.