Telenor Group Facebook<\/a> with a sample size of 700 secondary school, or university students per market used in the results analysis.<\/p>\n\u201cOur Facebook channel reaches an active, young \u2013 and largely Asian \u2013 following, so we felt that this would be a great place to pilot such a survey,\u201d said Sheena Lim, Director of Social Media, Telenor Group. \u201cWe thought this would combine the fun, engaging side of social media surveys with potentially interesting insights into Asian youth attitudes on technology and their future careers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives me great pleasure to learn that a majority of Pakistan\u2019s youth is excited about future opportunities in the internet and digital sectors. Although not a revelation per se, the stats are supportive of our commitment to a larger digital inclusion in the country,\u201d said Irfan Wahab Khan, CEO Telenor Pakistan, commenting on the findings. \u201cWith its ambition of becoming Pakistan\u2019s favorite digital lifestyle partner, Telenor Pakistan will continue to make inroads into the technology arena creating programs like Telenor Velocity, djuice Apportunity and Telenor Youth Forum to support and expedite the country’s digital ecosystem development,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s youth: Digital technology key to future careers
\n<\/strong>In Pakistan, 68% of millennials said they were \u2018excited\u2019 about future opportunities in the internet and digital sectors, with the largest majority (33%) saying they were \u2018extremely excited.\u2019\u00a0 They also mirrored the average of 63% of youth aggregated in all six nations saying that mobile\/internet technology will be \u2018important\u2019 in their career by 2020. \u00a0Indicating just how important youth in Pakistan think it is, only one percent said that technology is \u2018not really important\u2019 for their futures – the lowest of all countries surveyed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Build human skills, too<\/strong><\/p>\nThe surveyed youth in all but one of the countries agreed that non-technical skills will also be important for jobs of the future. The highest numbers of Pakistani (37%), Indian (36%), and Bangladeshi youth (34%) maintained that the most important skills to a great future jobs will be the \u2018ability to inspire others, and leadership capability.\u2019 More than one in four of the surveyed Singaporean youth regard \u2018people management and emotional intelligence\u2019 (27%). Nearly one in three Myanmar youth leaned toward \u2018creativity, cognitive flexibility\u2019 (29%). The standout in this category was Malaysia, where 24% of the surveyed stated that tech-related \u2018mobile and web development, and super coding skills,\u2019 were the most important. The skills that Pakistani millennials rated as the least important future job skills are: data analysis, research and interpretation (12%).<\/p>\n
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