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"Traditionally, jobs like these have been a vehicle for social mobility," Sutton Trust research manager Carl Cullinane tells The Verge. These include so-called "soft skills" like confidence, motivation, communication, and resilience. The Sutton Trust report also says that there is some reason to be optimistic about the coming wave of automation, particularly if governments can encourage people to train for STEM professions (those involving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). "From a social mobility perspective there are two important things about the STEM sector," says Cullinane of the UK job market.