About YOU’RE NEXT
Last updated 2026-11-10 · Operated by Opening Step
YOU’RE NEXT is a free information service that estimates how AI may affect work, by job, college major, university and region. It covers seven countries and regions: South Korea, the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Canada and Hong Kong. For each one it uses that country’s own lists of jobs and majors and its own rules.
No login or sign-up. Every outlook figure is an estimate made by AI, not a prediction or advice.
Services
Links below go to the US pages in English.
- Job Countdown: Enter a job to see when AI is estimated to start visibly reducing the hiring of people for it, and how much time is left until then. Each result also shows a one-sentence reason, a likely range and the share of the core work people are expected to keep in 20 years. 790 jobs in the US (752 in Korea, 770 in Japan, 803 in Taiwan, 833 in Thailand, 790 in Canada, 792 in Hong Kong).
- Major Countdown: Enter a college major to see when AI is estimated to start reducing the hiring of its new graduates. Pick a graduation year to see the time left after you graduate. 220 majors in the US (198 in Korea, 239 in Japan, 249 in Taiwan, 239 in Thailand, 239 in Canada, 161 in Hong Kong).
- Rankings: the same estimates sorted from earliest to latest: job rankings and major rankings.
- Career Quiz: Answer 24 questions about activities you enjoy and get 3 jobs that match your interests, with a fit score. It only picks from jobs we judge AI will take longer to replace.
- Runway Calculator: Enter your savings, monthly spending, income and when your paycheck stops, and see how many months your money would last. The amounts you enter are not sent to a server or stored.
- Quick-Start Jobs: Jobs you can start without a degree or experience, ranked by how soon the first paycheck arrives. Each one lists the training cost and the pre-tax pay.
- Job Seeker Tier: 27–32 questions show where your school, experience and skills place you among all job seekers in your country, from Tier 1 to Tier 10, and how hard your own goal is. Tier 1 is the strongest.
- Life Difficulty: Answer questions about money, work, people you can turn to, health and care, and see how hard your life is right now as a level from Lv.1 to Lv.10. It is calculated on your device.
- Expat Gacha: Enter your net worth and spin to draw a city abroad, then see the best home that money could buy there.
- My Luck Tier: Enter your birth date to have this month’s luck read with Korean saju and graded from SSS to F.
- My Wealth Tier: Enter your after-tax household income or your net worth to see where you rank in the world and in the US.
- AI Skill Grade: Ten questions chosen for your job show how well you use AI at work, as one of nine grades.
- Korea and Taiwan: University Countdown rates the next 10 years for 321 Korean universities, and Area Countdown shows the estimated lifespan and the 5-, 10- and 20-year outlook (with national rank) for Korea’s 256 cities, counties and districts. Both are in Korean; the Taiwan pages have their own versions for Taiwan, in Traditional Chinese.
Other countries and regions: Korea 한국어, Japan 日本語, Taiwan 繁體中文, Thailand ไทย, Canada English, Hong Kong 繁體中文. Each country’s pages use that country’s lists and estimates.
How the numbers are made
The outlooks for jobs, majors, universities and regions are estimates produced by AI models using public information and predefined assessment criteria. The AI research and assessments go through additional AI review and automated checks, followed by a final human review before publication.
What each number means, the criteria, the data used and the limits are explained in Methodology.
What this service is not
- It is not career, legal, financial or investment advice.
- It is not a prediction about any individual. It does not say when a particular person will lose or find a job.
- It is not an official statistic or rating from any government or public body.
Before an important decision, check job postings, notices from schools and institutions, and people who work in the field.
Who runs it
YOU’RE NEXT is run by Opening Step. The service is free, and ads may appear on some pages.
Contact: 2024opennext@gmail.com. See Contact for what to include.