7 Career Mindset Shifts For A Turbulent World: Day 1: The Overview

• Shift 1: From planned single career to flexible multi-career.

1. For our grandparents: 1 career for Life.
2. For our parents: at least one career shift, common.
3. For us: the need for a multi-career path to cope with the comings and goings and importantly disappearance of job opportunities, whole sectors and the acceleration of technology.
   

• Shift 2: From CV, experience and qualifications to attitude and added-value.

1. For our grandparents: qualifications lead to guaranteed increased reward. Experience (even simply time elapsed) is in itself rewarded.
2. For our parents: the appearance of an over-qualified society. Experience is the differentiator.
3. For us: an over-qualified society, much with good experience. The appearance of the requirement to distinguish through rapid, added-value with enormous flexibility.
   

•  Shift 3: From added communication channels to selection and discrimination.

1. For our grandparents: the excitement and usefulness of a land-line.
2. For our parents: the excitement and usefulness of the cell phone and e-mail.
3. For us: the awful dawning of data over-load and the need to discriminate on input channels.

• Shift 4: From satisfaction from job and pleasure security, to pleasure from the journey.
  

1. For our grandparents: the stability and pleasure of 'work is work and play is play'.
   
2. For our parents: the appearance of work/life balance issues but 'hang on for the early pension and retirement'.
   
3. For us: the realisation of no guarantees: enjoying the journey becomes more critical then ever.
   

• Shift 5: From 'corporate umbrella' to 'long-term hire'
  

1. For our grandparents: the paternal employer. Training, security and pension.
   
2. For our parents: the disappearance of the 'job for life'. But the pension and opportunities still exist.
   
3. For us: we are simply-at best-on a long-term hire. We need our own plans and importantly our own funding for the future.

•  Shift 6: From one-off education to on-going investment
  

1. For our grandparents: one education, one career.
   
2. For our parents: on-going courses should be enough.
   
3. For us: the emergence of the return of 'Renaissance Man'. Flexible, broad band-width and able to re-invent.
   

• Shift 7: From individual to brand
  

1. For our grandparents: behave and be rewarded.
   
2. For our parents: excel and be rewarded.
   
3. For us: you are simply a resource. You must develop your own brand. You run your own business now.
   

tbc.