Future of workSkills economyLifelong learning

Susan Myburgh

Revalued

She reads the future of work as a test of what remains human, useful and adaptable.

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The curator

Watching how value shifts

Susan Myburgh appears here as a thoughtful observer of transition. A retired academic who writes about ageing under the banner Revalued, she also keeps a sustained watch on the future of work, gathering material that maps how careers, skills and employer expectations are being rewritten by technology and labour-market change.

A second chapter with intent

Susan Myburgh presents herself as someone who has stepped out of academia and into a reflective second act. Her bio and blog title suggest a close interest in ageing, renewal and how to make later life fully one's own.

From personal reinvention to workforce reinvention

Yet the Scoop.it record here is firmly outward-looking. Rather than memoir or lifestyle notes, the focus is the changing grammar of work: what employers ask for, which skills rise, and how workers stay relevant through disruption.

Quiet voice, clear pattern sense

The editorial voice is restrained. She spots patterns by assembling article after article on employability, AI, power skills and unlearning, letting repetition reveal the bigger story of economic transition.

What defines this curation

Relentless tracking

The scale is striking: one topic alone runs to 2,495 posts. It works as a long-term watch on how employers describe demand, not a one-off list of hiring tips.

Skills beyond the software

The strongest thread is the meeting point between AI disruption, digital literacy and human skills. Technical change is never treated in isolation from judgment, adaptability and communication.

Report-driven selection

Much of the material comes from business media, consultants, research groups and workplace analysts such as Forbes, Deloitte, WEF, LinkedIn Pulse and Bernard Marr. The result is a practical, evidence-led reading list.

An editor of signals

The tone stays mostly silent and documentary. Instead of pushing a personal thesis, the collection builds its case through accumulation, showing how often the same pressures and priorities recur.

Topics

Deep dives

A running file on work in transition

This topic treats employability as a moving target. The emphasis is not on static qualifications but on a labour market being reshaped by AI, automation, remote work and shifting employer power. The selection repeatedly asks what remains valuable when technology changes the rules faster than institutions do.

What stands out is the balance between technical competence and human judgment. Data literacy, AI awareness and digital fluency matter, but so do critical thinking, creative problem solving and communication. The underlying argument is clear: durable careers will belong to people who can learn, adapt and make sense of change, not just follow a fixed job description.

There is also a strong interest in reskilling as a social and economic necessity. The topic gathers reports, think pieces and employer-facing analyses rather than personal advice alone, giving it the feel of a running dossier on how work is being reorganised. Even when the headlines are practical, the bigger story is structural upheaval.

Selected posts