The Digital Careers Program has closed
The Digital Careers Program was made possible by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) through the Digital Careers Grant. We are grateful for your interest and participation in the Digital Careers Program which concluded on 31 January 2024.
To learn about our impacts, read our 2022 CSIRO Digital Careers Interim Evaluation Report PDF (3 MB)
CSIRO remains committed to putting cutting-edge science into the hands of young Australians to build a workforce with the right digital skills and capability needed for the future.
- Hear from STEM professionals talk about their digital career with a video series developed through the Digital Careers program.
- Explore a wide range of educational programs offered by CSIRO by visiting CSIRO Education.
[Images move through of fingers on a keyboard, a male operating a drone, a female talking on a computer screen and a male talking to the camera and text appears: App developer, Drone pilot, Youtuber]
Male 1: App developer, drone pilot, Youtuber,
[Image changes to show Male 1 talking to the camera in a classroom]
it’s crazy how many jobs there are now that didn’t even exist when we were born.
[Images flash through of three people doing an experiment, a male talking to an audience, and then Female 1 sitting in a classroom talking to the camera]
Female 1: And smart people say there’ll be even more in the future.
[Images flash through of a male wearing goggles and holding two sensors, and then animation images move through of a male, an explosion, a skeleton, and a magician]
Today’s jobs will go extinct and new ones will get invented.
[Images flash through of people in various jobs and then the image changes to show Female 2 talking to the camera]
Female 2: What are they going to be, umm…?
[Image changes to show Male 1 talking to the camera]
Male 1: Well, no one knows for sure but it’s safe to say heaps of them will be digital.
[Images flash through of the students saying the word digital and text appears beneath them: Digital]
Female 3: Digital.
Female 2: Digital.
[Image changes to show Male 2 talking to the camera and text appears beneath him: Digital careers]
Male 2: Digital careers.
[Image changes to show the CSIRO logo next to text “Digital careers” and then the image changes to show Female 1 sitting in a classroom talking to the camera]
Female 1: What’s that mean?
[Image changes to show a room of people working on computers and then the camera zooms in on the computer screen displaying code]
Female 2: Well, it doesn’t just mean like writing code.
[Images flash through of a male riding an exercise bike while a trainer monitors him, a male looking at a bionic hand, and then Male 1 talking to the camera and then symbols and text appears: Human Brains + Computer Brains]
Male 1: It means jobs in the future are going to need human brains plus computer brains.
[Image changes to show a large truck and then the image changes to show Male 2 talking to the camera]
Male 2: Like a truck driver in the future won’t drive an actual truck.
[Image changes to show a truck driver in a cab driving and then the image changes to show a female operating a bank of computers showing a truck on the road on the screen]
They’ll drive a computer that drives the truck by remote control.
[Images move through to show a view looking down on a truck moving along a road, Female 1 talking, chefs at work in a kitchen, and then Female 1 talking to the camera again]
Female 1: Chefs in the future will have more computer controlled machines doing stuff.
[Images flash through of a person operating a video camera, a person operating a keyboard, a person dancing, and then Female 2 talking to the camera]
Female 2: Film makers, musicians, artists are all going to use digital technology even more than they already do.
[Images move through of a stethoscope, a flashing red light, a bell, and then Male 1 talking to the camera]
Male 1: Doctors, police, teachers, almost all careers are going to be digital careers.
[Image changes to show the Digital Careers website and the camera zooms in on Female 1 talking on the website in a video clip]
Female 1: So, that’s what digitalcareers is for.
[Images flash through of the Digital Careers website on a Smartphone, students looking at computers, and the Smartphone again]
This website and all the stuff around it are here to help us get set for jobs of the future.
[Images flash through of an animation of a person running on a Smartphone screen, students looking at a robot, a male teacher talking to a group of students, and Male 2 talking to the camera]
Male 2: To explain how new technologies might affect us.
[Images move through to show Katrie Lowe talking on a computer screen, a finger scrolling through on a Smartphone, and Male 1 talking to the camera]
Male 1: And show us great opportunities that are opening up and how to take advantage of them.
[Images flash through of the Digital Careers website, the cursor selecting “Like” and “Subscribe”, Female 2 talking to the camera, and a surgeon putting on a set of Google glasses]
Female 2: So, for like, subscribe, and all that because a digital career is probably going to be your career.
[Music plays and images flash through of people working in various different occupations and then the image changes to show the CSIRO logo and text appears: CSIRO digital careers, digitalcareers.csiro.au]
[Image changes and the CSIRO logo and text appears: CSIRO Australia’s innovation catalyst]