How many of the professions we know today will continue to exist in just a few years? What tasks will be completely carried out by robots? Automation and algorithms have been destroying jobs, but also generating new and high quality.According to the report "The future of jobs 2018" of the World Economic Forum (WEF), jobs such as supermarket cashier or assembly line operators have been and will be, to an increasing extent, those left in the hands of robotsThe development of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) those that threaten more and more professions, including many of those typically considered "white-collar".A study by the University of Oxford points out that even in the United States this trend already threatens approximately 47% of the entire workforce. In Argentina, the percentage is higher according to the World Bank: 65%.By the end of 2016, 1.8 million industrial robots were already operating in the world. When 2020 ends, that figure will climb to a whopping 3 million."Estimatically, 70% of the positions or one of every six jobs are going to cease to exist or will be reconverted, which is why we have to help companies and workers to generate new skills," says Maximiliano Schellhas, General Director from Staffing de Randstad, to iProUP.The executive said: "There are jobs that will disappear, but there are going to be other jobs or other needs, which we still do not know, that will require new profiles."Natalia De Greiff, vice president of IBM Services for South America, says that, according to internal research, "in the next three years, 120 million workers in the 10 largest economies in the world will have to retrain and train as a result of the advancement of the artificial intelligence, robotics and automation "."We are living a great transformation in our way of working, automation and artificial intelligence will affect all levels of the business and its people, modifying the searches for talent and skills that organizations need," says María Fernanda Álvarez Apa, consulting manager of People & Change of PwC Argentina.She adds: "It will be necessary to educate them in agility, adaptability and retrain them, above all, in abilities to face the change".In this sense, Valeria Delgado, vice president of Recruting for LAD of Oracle, says: "People, increasingly, must reinvent themselves to highlight their creativity, we are faced with the need for a human re-evolution".As a result of this transformation, Daniel Laco, responsible for the CESSI Talent Commission, understands that the jobs that are threatened are those that can easily be replaced by the implementation of new technologies.Routine or non-routine: that is the questionIn previous technological revolutions, the division between the jobs was of the manual type in front of intellectuals and not qualified versus highly qualified. And the threatened ones were the manuals and not qualified.Today, with digital transformation and full automation, jobs in danger are those related to repetitive tasks or those of little intellectual effort. This category includes those with low qualifications, manuals or intellectuals, but also those with high qualifications.For Javier Rubin Doschyk, Senior Manager of Consultancy in Human Capital of Deloitte, the range of threatened jobs is very broad and diverse, "more than we can imagine"."They are those linked to tasks that can be automated through accessible technologies: process robotics, chatbots and some more complex as artificial intelligence."Historically, there were jobs that worked for a certain period and disappeared or mutated by technological progress: elevator operator, typist or telephone operator are just some of the many examples. Today, the professions also change, resignify and disappear. And much more quickly.According to the regulations and culture of each country, this list may vary, but the jobs in danger of extinction are the following:María Inés Calvo, Director of Talent Attraction of Microsoft Latin America, refers concretely to what happens in our country."According to a study we carried out together with CIPPEC, based on an article by Frey and Obsborne (2017), the most susceptible occupations to be automated in Argentina are: translators, data capturists, telephone vendors, deposit operators and assemblers in industries, "he says.For the spokesperson of Deloitte, "although in some private organizations and even within the public sector have initiated digital projects that impact on the labor market, progress is slower than in other countries of the region due to the implementation costs in dollars, the pressure of the unions to advance these projects and the legislation in force. "Sebastián Siseles, International Vice President of Freelancer.com, agrees that these factors are "delaying" the automation process at the local level.However, he affirms to iProUP: "If there is something that can not be stopped, it is technological development, which leads to a greater development of societies".Creativity kills robotBut not everything will be destroyed by technology. Originality and social intelligence are faculties difficult to automate.For the PwC executive, "humans will have an advantage over artificial intelligence in skills such as conflict resolution, leadership, emotional intelligence, empathy and creativity.""Whatever has to do with empathy in terms of emotionality, it will hardly be replaced by the machines, everything that has to do with contact with the other, the robot will never supply it. primary care and the care of children and the elderly, "he adds.The executive of Randstad complements: "The population has more and more life expectancy, so the need of people who take care of it will be greater, that task will continue to be done by the human person, not a robot". The same happens with education and art.Adrián Jerbic, Managing Director of gA for the Southern Cone and the Andean region, argues that "the tendency is to streamline processes and give the possibility to the person to exploit their most creative qualities, replacing repetitive and standardized manual tasks with AI technologies" .The IBM executive believes that the development of new competencies plays a key role in organizations.However, he adds, "the knowledge should not be only technical from the retraining or training, but it will also value the soft skills that provide other points of view and appeal to creative thinking and adaptation."People who choose creative careers, whatever the scope, in which decision-making is a central factor in relationships, will not suffer so much from the next wave of work automation.Moreover, "automation does not mean that robots are going to replace man in everything," explains Siseles, of Freelancer.com.Innovation will also give rise to new professions, which probably incorporate development, engineering, supervision and interaction tasks, all characteristic skills of humans.In this way, the gA executive explains, for example, "who previously carried out a manual, repetitive and standardized task, such as billing, could dedicate themselves to training robots to do their previous work, or to think about in the strategy of the company. "And it completes: "With training and sustainable business policies, it is possible to reconvert the talents so that they occupy more value-added roles with a totally positive social impact".For his part, Álvarez Apa, from PwC, suggests that "organizations should include their people in the conversation about technological advances in the workplace."The executive highlights that "both companies and governments have a great responsibility in redesigning the future of work."While Randstad's spokesperson raises that, as workers, we also have a responsibility: do not expect everything to come from employers."We have to reinvent our own professional career or rethink our own career plan for the future, because there is a 70% chance of my employment changing over the years," he adds.Meanwhile, employers "will have to sit down and think about how to approach a business that is going to change in 10 years," he points out.It is important that society is incorporating the new capabilities, which are properly human beings, before the new and very dynamic labor scenario, "says the representative of the CESSI.The head of Randstad mentions that there is a very sensitive area that is the State. In Argentina, there are many public jobs whose tasks are very routine."A very important challenge will be to reconvert their employees, give them a new function, and this is something that will have to be resolved jointly by the public and private sectors," he says.However, the Microsoft executive highlights: "It is worth clarifying that an important part of economic growth will not come from replacing existing labor and capital, but from allowing them to be used much more effectively."