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5 Tech Jobs With Long-Term Staying Power

The Next Web, Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024

These are the careers that will evolve with the tech trends

While the tech sector suffered a downturn in 2023, leading to swathes of job cuts, there remains a high demand for certain tech jobs within the industry itself and beyond. Nonetheless, these job losses, alongside the rapid growth of generative AI tools in the past year sowed seeds of doubt for many, begging the question: do tech jobs offer good job security?

In a recent interview, Nobel Prize-winning economist Prof Christopher Pissarides cautioned students on selecting to study STEM subjects for future roles in tech that may be more limited in availability than expected.

This, he clarified in a later radio interview, is a projection for the labour market at least 10 years down the line, but it goes to show how much can change even in one decade.

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