Make sure you get a good job, they say. Build a future-proof career, people advise. But how do you get from dreaming to doing?
At the University of the Free State, we are determined to guide our prospective and current students on the road to career success. We are always scanning the job market to ensure that our students are equipped to meet current and future industry needs.
THE FUTURE WORLD OF WORK
The future world of work will be characterised by many opportunities and increasing complexities. How will you navigate these future complexities? You firstly require specific technical or subject knowledge of your qualification. This expertise relates to your choice of study and career. In addition, you will also require a suite of other attributes such as emotional intelligence, diversity intelligence, adaptability, empathy, networking, and social skills, as well as a caring attitude towards others. These skills are referred to as soft skills, and they will become more important as we progress into the era of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, virtual reality (VR), and augmented realities (AR).
In this new world of work, where does the UFS fit in? We are very excited to offer you an interdisciplinary fusion of qualifications, such as sport and business, humanities and natural sciences, and economics combined with digital sciences. Furthermore, the UFS is creating a buzz and a vibrancy with local and international industries to help our graduates with employability. If you want to shape the world and provide solutions to global problems, start your journey at the UFS to combine technical or subject knowledge with your unique set of soft skills. This combination will assist you in preparing for the future world of work.
The world of work is changing fast. Are you ready to prepare for your future?
Choose a university that understands what the world will look like tomorrow, and beyond. At the UFS, we teach you the skills needed to fulfil the demands of the new world of work. But more importantly, we guide you to develop the right mindset. With three campuses and seven faculties to choose from, you will find the qualification that is perfect for you.
Get ready to make your dreams come true. So, how will you change the world?
Entrepreneurs hold the key to success, and we need them more than ever. Equip yourself to build a business with a qualification from our Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences or prepare to enter the corporate world with the knowledge and mindset that will set you apart.
Without teachers, there would be no doctors, lawyers, engineers, or entrepreneurs. Every career begins with a teacher – are you up for the challenge? Besides being in a classroom, teachers can help develop learning materials for the growing online community that uses an alternative learning pathway to the traditional school. Personal education guides are also becoming popular as scholars are opting for one-on-one teaching and tailor-made learning programmes. Teachers will always be essential – let us help you become one in our Faculty of Education.
If you are fascinated by the way the human body works – nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists are growing in demand. Going forward, we may see a lot of robotic medical procedures, increasing the popularity of medical mentors who look after patients following surgery, as well as tele-surgeons who treat patients remotely. Enrol for one of our prestigious programmes in the Faculty of Health Sciences and become one of those who make medicine work.
Sales and marketing are popular current and future jobs – if you are drawn by the hustle of the corporate world, let us teach how to deal with people. With the growing visual world online, content producers will continue to gain popularity. Develop your creative skills with one of our many programmes to ensure that your content stands out; or prepare for the growth spurt of personal productivity persons who help others analyse daily schedules in order to produce a more productive work style. Make yourself indispensable with a sought-after qualification from our Faculty of the Humanities.
Legal experts will continue to play an important role in keeping society on track. Besides lawyers, advocates, judges and the like – there will be a growing need for legal experts in social-media law; collecting, managing and using electronically generated data from around the globe; and the complex relationship that is expected to evolve between humans and robots. Equip yourself with our outstanding law degree from the Faculty of Law if you want to bring justice to the world.
Our Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences offers a large range of qualifications to prepare you for a variety of current and future jobs in agriculture, building, and natural sciences. Genetic counsellors are becoming increasingly popular as science uncovers more possibilities in terms of gene control. And with the increasing number of humans to feed, urban agriculturalist and artificial food producers will become vital in all areas of the world. And that trash that we are producing every day? We need more and more engineers who can transform our trash into treasure. The world of tomorrow will also need weather-control engineers, bioengineers, and information engineers – among others. Join the biggest faculty at our university to become part of the scientists who will help us create a clean, comfortable, functional, food-rich world for all.
Humans have always had and will continue to have a need for and interest in religious practices, the history thereof, and the relevance of religion today. Fulfil your calling and enrol for a programme in our Faculty of Theology and Religion to learn from the very best.
By Dr Cinde Greyling
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