Click Your Fortune #2: Top future jobs - Alessandro Centrone

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Adital Ela: Sustainability Designer
Sandra Aamodt: Neuroscientist; Author
John Werner: Leadership Team, Citizen Schools; Research Scientist, MIT
Alessandro Centrone: Vice President of Sales & Distribution, Steelcase Inc.

What job that does not exist today do you think will be one of the world's "top 10" jobs in 10 years?

I think, and I'm speaking about my industry

so the company I work for

is a company that is engaged in supporting our clients

in defining this work environment.

And what we are seeing already today

but will increase definitely in the future

is the involvement of people

that have skills that are not directly related

to products themselves,

but people who understand mainly other,

let's say, sciences,

so people who can,

who are able to equate together concepts

that go from anthropology

to sociology

to psychology.

If you think about the impact

that the work environment can give to the people

working in that environment,

it's really important to have the ability

to understand what people are expecting

from a work environment

and translate that into an effective formula

that, in the end, could bring effective results.

So, something we are seeing today

but will definitely develop tomorrow

is really the ability to understand

different cultures.

So, we study different cultures.

We had just, we just conducted a study

to see how people behave in places

like Beijing

or Monterey

or Los Angeles

and to understand also

how the culture code, as we call it,

impacts those work environments.

So, I think the more the world is globalizing,

the more we see emerging economies becoming relevant,

the more, I think, these profiles

that are not necessarily only driven

by technical knowledge

will be profiles that will have a certain impact

and importance in our industry.

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