Calcalist: Techies encouraged to chase 'portfolio careers' to outrun AI job displacement, with Ilana Golan

Those in tech intimidated by the role that artificial intelligence will play in their jobs or careers are encouraged to chase ‘portfolio careers’, defined as a career compromising of a variety of roles rather than one position at a single organization. In the same way that financial advice may include ‘diversifying your portfolio’ to create a stream of different incomes, portfolio careers are built around combining multiple paid roles to ensure consistency and that workers remain invaluable against the threat of AI. “The way I look at it, we're in front of a massive cliff, and I think we are going to see 10s of millions or 100s of millions of people losing jobs because of AI,” said Ilana Golan, founder of Leap Academy.

“There's a lot of reskill schools, and we're going to help you reskill your things, [but] I bet most people can actually lean on the skills they already have and move them to something else, and nobody teaches that. There's not a single entity that teaches how to create ‘portfolio careers’, which is where I think the future is going. Every single leader that you see will have a portfolio of things, not just one, and there's not a single entity that we know of that teaches that.”

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