The jobs of the future that are experiencing the strongest growth

The following jobs have been the most dynamic roles on the CJOF index over the past year:

Fashion designer

Employment growth: + 279%

Solar Engineer

Employment growth: + 257%

Guidance Counselor

Employment growth: + 181%

Strategist / Social Media Specialist

Growth in employment: + 172%

Genetic counselor

Employment growth: + 163%

Not surprisingly, many of the jobs that dominated the CJoF index this quarter were roles in the digital domain. "The growth of employment in these areas reflects the increased demand for people with software, cybersecurity and digital design to drive the digital future of businesses," says the Cognizant report.

However, many other more surprising roles have also shown a strong growth in employment. For example, Cognizant reports that there has been a 279% increase in the number of vacancies in the "Fashion Designer" position in 2018.

Benjamin Pring, Director of Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work, said that these surprising and unsurprising job titles boil down to a background in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

"The STEM type jobs that people have said are going to be important – data science, machine learning, cybersecurity – these kinds of STEM-based jobs that people have said are going to be important, the data absolutely support this argument, "Pring told CNBC Make It. "The argument turns out that if you're 16, or if you're 25, or if you're 35, trying to get into one of those STEM areas is absolutely the right thing to do. clearly a huge demand for this kind of capacity. "

However, Pring also says that there will always be opportunities for workers even if they do not have these STEM skills searched for. The key, he says, is to use technology competently and to master only human characteristics.

"The notion that each type of person, whether it is based on mathematics or STEM, must occupy a technical position, that makes no sense.Many of the work will be based on STEM technologies, there will be a technological component, but they will not be technological jobs in themselves, "he explains. "You have to double the elements that differentiate a human from a software or a machine, and these are human qualities – the ability to empathize, to care, to be creative. , to sell, to help, to support – all those things that machines are not going to do any time soon. "

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