This document outlines 5 traits that can help foster career agility: 1) Take control of your career by choosing your own goals and looking for opportunities. 2) Widen your network to gain insights and opportunities. 3) Adopt an open mindset to embrace change. 4) Package your skills to optimize your personal brand for future roles. 5) Believe in your own abilities to thrive in different situations. It also notes that with increasing lifespans and accelerating change, adapting to multiple career transitions will become the norm.

1. Career
Agility
5 Traits to Help
You Foster

2. —Charles Darwin
“It’s not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the
most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change.”

3. In the next 10 years, the day-to day nature of
work could change for nearly everyone as
intelligent machines become fixtures in the
workplace.

4. As computational power gets faster, so do
networks and sensors, synthetic biology, and
robotics - and the convergence of these is
what’s transforming business models.
—Peter Diamandis, Co-Founder and Chairman of Singularity University

5. At the same time, on average, we are all
living longer than our parents.

6. If you are 20 now, you have a
50% chance of living to more
than 100.

7. If you are 40, you have a 50% chance of
reaching 95.

8. Question:
If you live 100 years, save around 10% of
your income and want to retire at 50%
of your salary, at what age will you be
able to retire?

9. Answer:
In Your 80s

10. Living longer lives amid
accelerating change means that
adapting to changing jobs and
navigating multiple career
transitions will become the new
norm.

11. 5 Traits Needed to Foster Career Agility
Step 1
Take Control of
Your Career
Step 2
Widen Your Circle
Step 3
Respond to
Change
Step 4
Optimise Your
Personal Brand
05
Step 5
Believe in
Yourself

12. Take Control of
Your Career
01
You are in charge of your career decisions. Be
conscientious in choosing your goals and
actively look for open doors, as opposed to
relying on chance.

13. Widen Your
Circle
02
Connecting with a wide network of people
opens up learning opportunities and provides
insights into industry trends, challenges and
opportunities.

14. “Deep and meaningful relationships put people in a better
condition to collaborate with and support fellow community
members to achieve more than any one of them could
achieve alone.”
—Ravi Kaneriya, INSEAD Executive MBA Alumnus

15. Respond to
Change
03
Adopting an open mind to embrace and learn from
unsettling situations and challenges will help you get
ahead.

16. Optimise Your
Personal Brand
04
Package your portfolio of skills and identify
areas where you can value-add most to the
next role that you are aiming for.

17. Believe in Yourself
05
It is a known fact that careers are not as linear as they
used to be. You have to believe in your capabilities and
ability to thrive in any situation presented to you.

18. “The INSEAD experience transforms our students
into lifelong learners and develops in them
versatility, agility, resilience and social intelligence.
Empowered in this way, and supported by our global
alumni community, you can look forward to a
fulfilling career – wherever life may take you.”
Agnès Cosnier-Loigerot
Global Director,
Career Development Centre
INSEAD

19. www.insead.edu/mba

20. Facebook.com/INSEAD
LinkedIn.com/INSEAD
Twiter.com/INSEAD
Youtube.com/INSEAD

21. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/the-future-of-work-in-america-people-and-places-today-and-tomorrow
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