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- At its core, talent protocol has always been about community. Providing a network for underrated, yet vivid and vibrant high-potential builders to be discovered.
Launched in june 2022, over the last few months, it has grown considerably, having a network of more than 100,000 builders in the web3 space, providing a place where these individuals can easily showcase what they have done in the space and their career goals of the future.
Understanding what it is that talent protocol does.
Talent Protocol is a revolutionary platform building on web3 to help high-potential builders succeed in their careers. The platform allows users to create an on-chain resume and launch a talent token, which serves as a tool for investors to support and invest in their careers. This unique feature enables talent to take ownership of their career journey and create a committed community of supporters who are incentivized to help them succeed.
**The Two kings within talent protocol**
Talent protocol works by having two key players in the system, the “supporters” and the “talents”.
Supporters:
Supporters can identify builders/talents and invest in their career growth through various means, either via direct monetary compensation or via investing in their own tokens. But more than that, supporters can use talent protocol to identify individuals they may want to work with, hire, reach out to etc
This inevitably means that talent protocol potentially provides a database of builders that can be reached out to by potential employers and hiring managers!
Talents:
Talents are the source upon which talent protocol is built. The high achievers, the builders, those who stand tall and create/push amazing things. Talents can create an onchain and verifiable onchain resume that shows their history, current activities, how deeply they currently are involved in the crypto space and their future ambitions.
It provides an avenue for them to stand out of the crowd and show that “indeed” they are individuals who know what their worth is.
Talent protocol enables these two set of individuals to find themselves in the simplest way possible.
**Updates to talent protocol**
In recent days, talent protocol has introduced a couple of new updates in a bid to improve its support model. The new support model offers three new main features: subscribing to other talents, endorsements, and sponsorship.
**Subscribing** to other talents allows supporters to receive updates on the career progression of the talents they follow. This feature is particularly useful for users who want to learn from the experiences of others and grow their own careers in the web3 ecosystem.
**Endorsement,** on the other hand, involves staking real money and vouching for someone’s potential. Supporters who endorse a talent through Talent Protocol get access to a $TAL yield pool and receive rewards. This incentivizes supporters to invest in the careers of high-potential talent and contributes to their growth.
**Lastly, the sponsorship** feature allows supporters to directly sponsor talents featured on the Talent Protocol app. This feature provides supporters with an opportunity to help talents grow by sponsoring them with resources towards the fulfilment of their career goals.
In conclusion, Talent Protocol is a game-changer in the web3 ecosystem. Its platform enables the next generation of high-potential talent to achieve success and fulfilment in a collective manner that recognizes and rewards everyone that contributes. The recent launch of a new support model makes the platform even more accessible, and the future looks bright for this growing community. Whether you’re a talent looking to take ownership of your career or a supporter looking to invest in the next big thing, Talent Protocol is definitely worth checking out.
- *tl;dr*
*The future of work may be in communities that verify your skills and companies can come to these platforms to hire talents. This way, there is a more direct reward for hard work and your work can be acknowledged. It also stops those who slack off from doing so and creates an environment where workers strive to be better and collaborate.*
*Join some of the communities here, Join talent protocol here, join RnDAO here…etc*
It is no secret that since 2022, companies ranging from Meta to Amazon and smaller startups have steadily laid off staff, with the layoffs seemingly having no end in sight.
So many theories about the possible causes of these layoffs have been pushed, ranging from supply chain issues due to the Russia-Ukraine war, to rising interest rates in the US and delayed aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
I however believe it is a combination of all these and one very important phenomenon that we have experienced since 2020 — productivity and technological advancement.
**“Technological unemployment”, a slow but deadly menace.**
I believe that the advancements in technology and the subsequent increase in productivity play a large role in the layoffs we are currently seeing in the industry.
Take, for example, Amazon, despite being a top 5 company worldwide, they are about to lay off another round of employees, bringing the total number of employees laid off to around 27,000 employees.
A story that however flew under the radar about amazon was their launching of a new mobile autonomous robot called “proteus”.
Amazon has also been heavily pushing into automation in the last decade. The jobs these robots can possibly do would have been handled by an employee, who has now unfortunately has lost a job to tech.
This story isn’t unique. *In the 1970s and 1980s, trading floors on Wall Street were bustling with human operators who were making calls and managing trading activities. As technology advanced during that time, an increasing number of these tasks were automated. Today, powerful computers with ultra-low latency handle these operations, executing trades in fractions of a second to ensure profits are made on Wall Street.*
What this all means is that fewer human employees would be required to perform work over time, from trading, to software engineering, to design, etc.
The advent of AI in 2023 may perhaps be the largest wake-up call that humans need to look at and find ways to adapt to technology, combining it in such a way that your job as a person is protected for as long as possible.
**The new way to work, prioritizing talent, DAOs, freelance.**
*The article from this point on is my opinion on how I think the future of work will pan out.*
I believe as tech continues to grow and take over more jobs, communities will form around verifiable talent, skills and those who can *“actually do the work”*. Being employed in the tech space will become more and more about what specific thing you can help a company achieve and getting hired for that duration, before moving on to something else.
I believe freelancing would rise, but more than that, communities that have already vetted the skills of workers will be more utilized.
Take an example, a company like meta wants to hire a designer for a job in 2045. Instead of randomly selecting a designer as a freelancer, they go to a verified community(say RnDAO for example) that has loads of designers and they select from there because the skills of the designer have already been vetted beforehand by the community leads.
While I have no idea if this will ever actually happen, I can already see some form of it play out with the emergence of DAOs like developer_dao and designer_dao among others. These are places where designers and devs can throw their hats in and get hired for work as long as they are hardworking and know their tools very well.
**Examples of said communities**
I recently stumbled upon a platform that allows users who have skills to create a profile, show off their works and be known as a talent on the platform basically.
The platform called talent protocol claims to be creating a system that helps talented individuals gain more exposure and support. They do this with web3 profiles that can be verified, making it easier for people to trust them. The platform also allows others to support these talents by investing in them. This makes career growth feel like a team effort instead of a solo journey.
Join talent protocol here
Other platforms I saw include;
RnDAO: a community dedicated to empowering humane collaboration. They are a research-first venture builder focused on Groupware.
Join RnDAO here
banklessDAO: a community with the central goal to drive adoption and awareness to bankless systems of money such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, with the goal of onboarding 1 billion people to crypto.
developerDAO: a community of thousands of web3 builders creating a better internet.
**At the end**
Perhaps we as humans can do nothing to stop the inevitable rise of automation and tech in taking our jobs, but we can extend the time that it occurs by being vigilant, more willing to use tools and understanding the current work environment that we find ourselves in.
This all could also be averted if we have a future that supports universal basic income (UBI).
Ultimately, the choices we make today will determine our ability to thrive in the days ahead. Let us stand together, united in our determination to forge a brighter tomorrow, where technology serves as a force for good, elevating all of humanity. In this pivotal moment, let us be the architects of our own destiny, for it is we who hold the keys to a world where opportunity, hope, and prosperity remain within our grasp.