Profiling your future
Strategies for situations
Some of my clients over the years have said that they don't a need a strategy for keeping in employment. To some degree I can accept that since it is very obvious that a very high percentage of people have no clear plan at all and their employment has been a series of sliding-door moments. While we have had a booming economy for the last ten years and a corresponding skills shortage another approach has not been necessary.
However we are moving towards a different model of employment. The world has moved on. The economy is slowing, thousands of jobs are being off-shored and others are being outsourced where very defined duties are grouped together. This offers little scope for career development to those who are in these roles.
The good news is that there is more variety of opportunity than at any other time in history: there are more types of role and greater numbers of those roles than ever before. The skills for this brave new world are the skills which improve your employability.
The truth is that we use strategies of one kind or another all of the time. We reflect on our needs and desires, survey the external environment, make our choices and act accordingly. We are suggesting that the choice element of the equation has changed and that your employability factor isn’t a ‘nice to have any more’, its essential!