The Career Landscape — The map is being redrawn

Data scientist, cloud architect, social media manager and UPI product manager were not job titles twenty years ago. Nobody forecast them, and most confident predictions about which jobs would vanish have aged badly. What holds up is duller: the skills that move between jobs keep their value while the titles churn.

• Treat forecasts about work with care. The widely repeated claim that most of today's schoolchildren will do jobs that do not yet exist has no study behind it.
• Portable skills are the hedge: writing clearly, working with people, handling numbers, and learning something new quickly. No single job owns them.