Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Surviving In A Post-Career World


CAREERS ARE DEAD.
 Not just individually, but collectively. The long, steady climb up an organizational, industrial or professional hierarchy, beginning after college and ending upon retirement, no longer exists. Now it's all about survival. We all now work in a post-career world; an unpredictable environment in which excellence leads to termination as often as success, and expertise can make job searches Herculean. The global economic crisis that struck in the Fall of 2008 may have been the tipping point, but our traditional approach to work has been on the road to extinction for decades. Stephen M. Pollan, co-author of Lifelines for Money Misfortunes: How to Overcome Life's Greatest Challenges, shares key job preservation and job hunting tactics for a post-career world. Learn more on Smartman Daily.