Career Today

Technology is transferring the nature of our work, bringing a shift from an economy based on production to one based on information. Our economic, social and cultural environment has changed dramatically in the last few years. causing tremendous confusion and calling for adaptive responses different from those we use in the past. As both government and corporations are downsizing their obligations more and more responsibility fall upon the individual. 

In pursuit of efficiency an global competitiveness, organisation feel free to treat their people like any other "resources" -- as a commodity to be purchased at a particular price and used as convenient with a particular time frame. 
Re-engineering waves have cut costs and staff. Few years ago people could look forward to relatively predictable and secure employment.

Richard Pascale has observed corporations were once,"like ocean liners, anyone fortunate enough to have a berth cruised through a career and disembarked at retirement age." 
Today he says, "ocean liners have started leaving their crew overboard."

"The new career is like dancing: sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow, sometimes you just sit on the side liner waiting to be invited to the party." 

"The new career is like a house in a horror movie with scary monster behind every door and trap doors opening up under your feet."

"The new career is like life in the jungle.Its eat or be eaten."

Career in earlier days was marriage, now it is a date.

Everything shifts rapidly, everything is influx, nothing is forever. 
What you do at work, the skills you use there, where you work, who you work with -- everything is temporary. 

In today's career "Temporary is a permanent challenge."