Advances in technology are likely to have an impact on the workplace of the future

What do the inventions of steam power, electricity and computers have to do with your career? Well, they were the basis for the first three industrial revolutions and students are now preparing for the fourth: an age of robotics, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology.

You will be entering work at a time when traditions such as nine-to-five jobs and careers for life are challenged. The future workplace is expected to be more fluid and flexible. Agile working is more likely to be the norm, so people can balance work with hobbies and family life; job satisfaction is expected to have higher priority than titles; and it will become common for people to have more than one career in their working lives.

Arguably you will have more