HR jobs of the future

A report came out earlier this year entitled 21 HR Jobs of the Future (Cognizant) and it then featured in the Harvard Business Review in a snazzy graph, which had dates from 2020 to 2050 as the horizontal axis and ‘Level of tech-centricity’ as the vertical one from Low to High. The predicted roles were peppered across the different quadrants.

I thought it would be interesting simply to list the job titles expected to feature in HR departments just to give you a flavour of the future. Here goes:

• Strategic HR business continuity director
• Chatbot and human facilitator
• Genetic diversity officer
• VR (Virtual Reality) immersion counsellor
• HR data detective
• Algorithm bias auditor
• Human bias auditor
• Human network analyst
• Workplace environment architect
• WFH (Working from Home) facilitator
• Future of work leader
• Climate change response leader
• Second act coach
• Gig economy manager
• Human-machine teaming manager
• University4Life coordinator
• Distraction prevention coach
• Chief purpose planner
• Employee enablement coach
• Head of business behaviour
• Director of wellbeing

One of the VPs of Cognizant’s US Center for the Future of Work stated, ‘There are five core themes across HR’s jobs of the future: Individual and organisational resilience, organisational trust and safety, creativity and innovation, data literacy, and human-machine partnerships.’

I offer no comment on all this, other than to say that I would expect the Director of wellbeing to have a tough job.

Published on Dec 16, 2020 by Neil Thomas