This document discusses how careers have changed and the need for new approaches to career support. It notes that traditionally, individuals would have a single long-term employer but now people will likely have 5-10 employers over their career. It also says careers will be more dynamic and global. This means individuals need to stay professionally relevant for longer. It suggests rethinking what career and development support looks like for multiple employers and extended careers, such as portable records and assessments, multi-company peer groups, and new ways of matching career needs with company needs. The document emphasizes that individuals now must take responsibility for managing their own career.

1. Life Time Career Support

2. Today’s best and the brightest face different careers
than their earlier generations

3. The “typical”
traditional
career

4. Traditionally you started your career by picking the right
company to work for - fitting your skills, strengths, and
aspirations
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5. In addition to picking the right company, the next step was
to convincingly make your mark before 40…
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25 40 Age

6. … which would set you up for "making a real
difference" between 40 and 55
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25 40 55 Age

7. This would put you in a position to be able to leverage
after 55 (or prepare to retire)
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8. What is different in
today’s typical
career?

9. Today's best and brightest will no longer have a single
career defining employer - but more likely more than
five or even ten

10. Demographics will also force today's best and brightest to
pursue much more extended careers
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11. And they will have to do so in an altogether substantially
more dynamic, complex, global, and faster changing
environment

12. So what does this mean?

13. First of all, the increased business dynamics fuel the risk of
professional irrelevance during a career

14. Which is unfortunate as extended careers require just the
opposite: we need to stay professionally relevant much
longer
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15. On top of that, our multi-company careers frustrate the
consistency and continuity of our career and
development support

16. In short: Ouch!

17. What to do?

18. It is prudent to rethink our ideas of an ideal career

19. It is no longer only about how quickly you can make a real
difference - but with extended careers - it is as much
about for how long you can continue doing so
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20. The faster changing business environment also erodes the
value of a single career learning curve
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Capitalize on
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21. Instead it will become paramount to indefinitely
maintain our ability to learn and grow
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Obsolete
Experience
25 40 55 Age

22. It is also prudent to rethink what we require in terms of
career and development support
Career & Development Support
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Multi-Company Extended
Careers Careers

23. So what about Career &
Development Support?

24. For starters, Career & Development Support used to be
either good or not so good, now it is certainly
discontinuous and inconsistent

25. This makes it prudent to see how we can create multi-
company focused career & development support to
complement in-company offerings
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26. For example, by providing a means for a company
independent personnel file - much like the (future)
computerized patient records in healthcare

27. Or for example by assuring availability of, and access to,
comparable skills and personal driver assessments…

28. … providing input to Career Coaching specifically focused
on Multi-Company Career progression

29. Access to a core career development curriculum can
help individuals to close gaps in their formal development

30. Another thing to consider is how to create and maintain
true professional peer groups across multiple
companies for informal career support

31. Last but not least, new ways of matching the career
needs of individuals with the contribution needs of
companies will have to be explored

32. What does it all mean?

33. More so than ever your career is now really your own
responsibility - and things have become more
complicated on top of that

34. Fortunately there is a growing number of tools to help
you manage your career and development

35. Leaving you with a potentially much more rewarding and
durable career progression.......!