素材記事： https://fortune.com/article/career-advice-from-amazon-nvidia-mcdonalds-ceos-for-current-job-market-crisis-gen-z-unemployment-fortune-500-leaders-optimistic-success-still-possible/
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That’s a great article. It’s full of hope. It’s the kind of article I’d like every young person in Gen Z who dreams of success to read.
Companies are looking for people who can actively collaborate with AI. At the same time, setting AI aside for a moment, what kind of young people are they looking for in terms of “human qualities”? There are plenty of clues here.
For example, the message from Sweet, the CEO of Accenture—a highly capable leader—is clear. “For the millions of Gen Z NEETs and job huggers looking to land a new job or promotion, the takeaway is clear: Embrace challenges, stay curious, take ownership of your career, and remain adaptable and you’ll be positioned to thrive even in an unpredictable job market.” I suppose the point is to thoroughly pursue curiosity and independence.
Amazon’s CEO conveys a similar message: “Jassy’s own career is proof. Long before becoming CEO of one of the world’s most powerful companies, he experimented by trying his hand at sportscasting, product management, and entrepreneurship. He also worked at a retail golf store, coached high school soccer, and tried his hand at investment banking.” Along with curiosity and a spirit of forging his own career path, he has consistently embraced a thorough experimental approach. It’s not at all the case that he gathered a wealth of information, set clear goals, made a plan, earned his MBA on schedule, joined Amazon, and rose to the top. He has “gotten his hands dirty” (in a good way, of course) in a wide variety of settings.
“That exploration, he said, was essential.” That really resonates with me. Personally, I agree wholeheartedly. My own life has been a whirlwind of diverse curiosity and experimentation. It’s the height of folly to try to predict what will happen 10 years from now based solely on the limited information available today, when we can’t even predict what will happen two years from now. That kind of “stability” mindset doesn’t even exist as a mirage these days.
What’s needed isn’t the kind of low-quality job-hunting guide that many universities still hand out to students—or those cost-ineffective simulations that deceive people with a “low-probability image of stability.” Generation Z would be wise not to be fooled by advice from a world that no longer exists—the one Generation X lived in when they were young.
What’s needed is a strong sense of self and a positive, experimental mindset—along with the resilience they foster—that allow you to adapt no matter how much the outside world changes. To use my own coined slogan, it’s also the ability to “go with the flow strategically.”
It might not be all that convincing coming from a liberal arts-educated punk psychologist like me, but when similar advice comes from the leaders of the world’s leading corporations listed here, it carries considerable weight, right? In the age of AI, these advice will prove increasingly useful.
良い記事だなぁ。希望が詰まってる。Z 世代で成功を夢見る若者たち全員に読んで欲しい記事ですね。
AIと積極的に協業できる人間を企業は欲しがっている。同時に、AIから少し離れて、「人間力」としてはどのような若者を欲しがっているか？ここにヒントがたくさんあります。
例えば、アクセンチュアの辣腕トップであるスイートCEOのメッセージはクリア。「For the millions of Gen Z NEETs and job huggers looking to land a new job or promotion, the takeaway is clear: Embrace challenges, stay curious, take ownership of your career, and remain adaptable and you’ll be positioned to thrive even in an unpredictable job market.」で、とにかく好奇心と自立心を徹底的に突き詰めよということでしょうね。
AmazonのCEOもメッセージが類似します。「Jassy’s own career is proof. Long before becoming CEO of one of the world’s most powerful companies, he experimented trying his hand at sportscasting, product management, and entrepreneurship. He also worked at a retail golf store, coached high school soccer, and tried investment banking.」です。好奇心と自分で自分のキャリアを耕す精神と共に、徹底した実験主義を貫いて来た。たくさんの情報を集めてかっちりと目標を立てて計画を作り、予定通りにMBAを取ってAmazonに入社してトップに上り詰めたわけでは全然ない。多様な場所で「手を汚している」（もちろんよい意味で）。
「That exploration, he said, was essential.」は痺れますね。個人的にもその通りだと思います。私の人生も多様な好奇心と実験主義の塊だったので。2年後がどうなるかすら読めないのに、今ある限定情報だけで10年後を予測しようなんて、愚の骨頂です。そんな「安定」志向は、いまどき蜃気楼にすら存在しない。
必要なのは、未だに多くの大学が生徒に手渡しているような質の悪い就活の巻物…そんな「確率の低い安定イメージ」に騙された、コスパの悪いシミュレーションではない。X世代が若い時に住んでいた、今は存在しない世界からの助言に、Z 世代は騙されない方が良い。
必要なのは、いかに外で変化が起こっても、それに対応することのできる強い自分軸と明るい実験主義、それらが作り出すレジリエンス。私の造語的スローガンで言えば、「戦略的に流される」能力でもある。
私のような教養系パンク変態が説いても、さほどの説得力はないかもしれませんが、ここに列挙されてるような地球を代表する大企業のトップに君臨する人間たちから類似のアドバイスが来ると それなりの説得力を持ちますね。AI時代にはますます、これらの助言は役に立ちますよ。
