It is striking the concern that exists today for the disappearance of multiple jobs resulting from the exponential technological development that awaits us. In 2030, it is estimated that we will have lost five million jobs and employees will have 40% skills that do not exist today. Big data analysis, for example, will allow apps to diagnose 85 percent of diseases better than doctors, and we don't know what doctors who make those diagnoses will do today.
But we shouldn't worry. Big data cannot predict human behavior. A study that tried to predict who would be the director of a large company failed. In the end, a boss's nephew, against all odds, took over the company. New jobs will appear and that of a psychologist will be one of those that will not only be maintained, but will multiply its functions by addressing not only pathology but "normality".
Psychologists have already ceased to be just "healers" of "mental illness" to become facilitators of change acceptance, motivational drivers, work circumstance analyzers, policy consultants and interventions to increase engagement, sages capable of helping people to get to know each other better and make the best of themselves by developing themselves in the personal and work spheres.
Companies like Healthy Work already bring the principles of psychology and neuroscience closer to employees of dozens of companies, helping them find the motivation to develop healthy habits, providing help to cope with day-to-day difficulties, and collaborating in self-knowledge and development. of the optimism and emotional intelligence necessary to be resilient and live more adapted and sure of ourselves.
The challenge of helping "in the normal way" is no longer for people without training in the human mind. The challenge is for psychologists with a good academic background who will incorporate scientific knowledge about thoughts, actions and emotions into the business world.