Top careers for 2030 and beyond

The most important skills and characteristics for future careers will be based around creativity, relationships and expertise.

While many jobs will be replaced by machines, they are only good for repetitive and process-driven tasks and are unable to compete in areas of creativity and relationships, according to a Open Colleges report.

Therefore, these are the employment sectors which are expected to thrive in 2030, and beyond.

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Below are the top 10 Aussie future careers.

Web and human interface designer

As machines become more prevalent in the everyday lives of Australians, the requirement for skilled interface designers, and web designers, will be in high demand and robots are likely to lack the emotional skill needed to understand how people relate to machinery.

Allied health professional

Australia’s growing elderly population and the aging baby boom generation will create greater demand for health services.

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Allied health professionals is a term used to describe the broad range of health professionals who are not doctors, dentists or nurses but instead work within a health team to help prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses.

While doctors, dentists and nurses are essential roles for the future Australia, demand for allied health professionals will grow in line with the population.

Aged care worker

Similarly, the growing elderly population will put increased demand on aged care workers.

Fitness and nutrition professional

The Australian government’s effort to encourage Australians to adopt a healthier lifestyle also supports job growth in the fitness industry.

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This is further supported by the increasing number of retirees which plan to stay healthy and fit for longer.

Graphic designer

While machines will be productive at actually producing items, demand talented people required to design the items will continue to grow.

Graphic, interior and industrial designers – those understanding form and function, and what people find appealing – will become increasingly important.

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Data scientist

Aussies which are able to identify, segment and group endless amounts of digital information, in a way that is understandable and offers insight to consumers, will become even more important as the ‘digital age’ grows further.

Space miner

Space or asteroid mining is expected to become reality to 2025, in order to exploit the resources outside of our planet.

Specialists expect that the rarity of materials mined in space could be worth over US$100 trillion.

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Robotics engineer

Given the future is expected to be centered round technology, and machines are anticipated to become more prevalent in the everyday lives of Australians, robotics engineers will clearly also see a jump in demand.

Counsellor

The robotic nature of everyday transactions will also increase the need for people which are able to understand relationships, such as counsellors.

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Journalists and content creator

Journalism was predicted to be a dying industry, but has simply decentralised and become much more diverse.

Anything from marketing, advertising, social media and other online platforms need writers to write the content.