Mysticism of Tarot No Refuge from Having Down Cold Tech

 Online collaboration

Data Analysis

Design

Project Management.

Knowing Your Way Around The Apps

There are apps for all of those and more. The Wall Street Journal reports that those hiring increasingly demand not only tech competencies. They require expertise in applying their advanced features.

No longer, for example, can you submit a simple nuts-and-bolts presentation. What is probably expected is that you create a gee-whiz one with Canva.

Interestingly, even in the tradition-bound legal sector, in Leaders Magazine Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp discusses how the law firm is adopting tech-supported collaboration tools empowering quality and timeliness in this hybrid work world. That's in addition to parachuting in AI for legal and knowledge management tasks. Support staff I coach in law firms tell me how they have to keep up with the ever-changing software. Speed in use is expected.

Implications, Ranging From Job Search To Compensation

Therefore, resumes should list proficiencies in technology. That's what employers want to see. And it could be a reason why cover letters are becoming obsolete.

If a resume doesn't indicate the required tech prowess, then it will likely be tossed. On an interview there are bound to be in-depth questions about which model of what software is the most productive. One of my coaching clients was asked just that for a tech-help desk role. Yes, that at-homeness with the options in technology could be a must-have.

Since that is becoming the price of entry and no longer an edge, in some lines of work it is not necessarily correlated with high compensation. For example, in the distressed content-creation profession a contract assignment posted by Trendline SEO on Pro Blogger pays 4 cents per word. That’s even though it requires deep understanding of search engine optimization and in staging product-use screenshots. Before I exited communications for what had once been a sideline - intuitive career coaching - I was earning $1.25 per word. 

Given that technology such as ChatGPT - 4 will take over more and more content tasks, the payment for those creatives left standing is bound to continue to deflate. Meanwhile, money-losing Buzzfeed, in the struggle for cost-efficiency, has incorporated that technology in its reporting process. 

Heading Toward PIPs

Of course, stumbling on the job in using new technologies could land you on a PIP (proposal to improve performance.) That ups the odds of those over-50 being forced out. Even before the era of AI everything Pro Publica found that more than half of that age group will leave their jobs involuntarily. Only one in 10 will move on to comparable employment.

First will come the warning. Then the PIP process could kick in. In Protocol, employment lawyer Mark Carey of Carey & Associates documented that only 5% to 10% of PIPs will save a job. I add: Those who make it through a PIP might find themselves with a tarnished internal brand. 

Few Refuges from Technology

Is there a refuge from technology? If there are there are fewer. So much of auto repair, once dependent on manual skills, has gone high-tech. In my sideline of providing Tarot readings (The New York Times saluted the Tarot as a tool for self-awareness) I had to master the complex technology of a firm for which I provide contract services. If I make an error or do not respond quickly enough to a prompt, compensation is automatically docked.

Takeaway: A must investment in a livelihood is learning new technologies and enhancing expertise in standard ones.

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