Navigating Australia's Future Job Market
An interactive guide for young Australians. Explore the impacts of AI, discover high-growth sectors, and find the skills you need for a successful career from 2025 to 2075.
The Big Picture: Major Forces of Change
The next half-century of work in Australia will be shaped by powerful, interconnected trends. Understanding these shifts is the first step in charting a successful career path.
The AI Revolution
Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool; it's a new work partner. It will augment many roles by handling routine tasks, creating demand for new skills in AI literacy, ethics, and human-AI collaboration.
The Green Transition
The shift to a net-zero economy is creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and the circular economy, from technicians and engineers to policy advisors.
The Human-Centric Economy
An ageing population and the NDIS are driving massive growth in healthcare, aged care, and social assistance. Empathy, communication, and care are more valuable than ever.
Gender Distribution in Key Fields
While overall workforce participation is balancing, many high-growth fields show significant gender segregation. This chart highlights the percentage of female representation in selected male-dominated and female-dominated occupations.
Projected Growth Hotspots
Job growth is not evenly spread. This chart shows the projected 5-10 year growth outlook for some of Australia's most critical and rapidly expanding career areas, highlighting where future demand is expected to be strongest.
Interactive Career Explorer
Use the filters below to explore over 70 roles. Search for specific jobs or filter by industry, work style, and AI impact to discover pathways that match your interests and aspirations.
Future-Proof Your Career
The concept of a single job for life is gone. Career resilience now comes from building a diverse portfolio of adaptable skills. Here's how to invest in your future.
Build Your Technical Toolkit
These are the foundational technical literacies that will be valuable across a wide range of future careers.
- ✓AI Literacy: Understand the basics of how AI works, its capabilities, and its ethical implications. This is the new digital literacy.
- ✓Data Analysis: Learn to interpret data, spot trends, and use data to make informed decisions, regardless of your field.
- ✓Cybersecurity Awareness: Understand the fundamentals of protecting digital information, a critical skill for everyone.
- ✓Cloud Computing Fundamentals: A basic knowledge of how cloud platforms like AWS and Azure work is increasingly important in tech-adjacent roles.