“Every day 200 young people leave Portugal looking for a more promising career”, the problem is “not being able to return”

More than a drain on Portuguese talent, Mafalda Rebordão talks about an excessive circulation of brains: “We are the country in Europe where the most young people leave the country and the eighth in the entire world”. According to the numbers presented by the guest, 200 young people leave our country every day in search of a more promising career. A phenomenon that also happens in other countries.

For the president of the C Level Mentorship Academy, the first mentoring academy to find and develop the country’s future leaders, Portugal has the most prepared generation ever, but also the most frustrated. She argues that the ease of moving around Europe at more affordable prices is a determining factor for this mobility, however what worries her most is returning to Portugal: “The biggest problem is not finding the conditions to return”.

For Google’s strategic partnerships manager, there is a certain prejudice against new generations. Maybe because they don’t understand them: “They have a completely different view of the job market. Today they put life first. They want to have time to do other types of things.” For Mafalda Rebordão, people will increasingly change between jobs and the majority will have several jobs at the same time, they will not stay full time in just one company. In fact, a trend that is already happening in the United States and which represents around 40% of new businesses created in that country.

As for artificial intelligence (AI), he says it is like the wind: “we can put our hands on it, but it will continue to pass by”. “We have to understand how we can live as well as possible [com ela]”, he emphasizes. In his opinion, this will involve investing in privacy and creating innovation with regulation.

40% of current climate problems will be solved by AI, he says, based on a report published by the World Economic Forum. He also points out that technology will have the capacity “to collect a huge amount of data and analyze it”, but believes that “critical thinking will always be done by humans”.

The AI ​​specialist also explains that this is a sector that involves high investments, due to the need for research and allocation of resources, but that Europe continues to lag behind in this area. Regarding the fact that several jobs may be at risk, Mafalda Rebordão argues that, simultaneously, other opportunities will arise.