What are the different views of career success?

What career success views do you have and what does your employer hold?

Career development

Old: Career growth means moving up the corporate ladder and measuring up against the approved professional timetable.You are what you do.

New: This is a lifelong process of development to maintain harmony between your growing personality and career. Who you are is important.

Success

Old: It’s measured by external rewards like status, respectability, money, and security.

New: It’s defined personally. Rewards are judged by personal and job satisfaction. Status means offering creative ideas.

Retirement

Old: It’s resignation, sometimes mandatory, from a long term employer at about 65. This age was set by German Chancellor Otto von Bismark in 1881.

New: Age is irrelevant. Adults reassess goals during life career transitions at about age-30 and every decade after that, and continue involvement in activities that give meaning and direction.

Managing layoffs 

Old: Employees wait for the notice. Job search focuses on responding to ads and accepting a secure job in the same occupation.

New: Employees attend to company happenings. They prepare by upgrading skills and creating their own jobs.

Management style

Old: Organizations have centralized hierarchichal “command and-and-control” structures. Employees are told what to do, don’t question status quo.

New: Organizations employ decentralized “coordinate and cultivate” management with loose structures. Employees participate in decisions, think critically.

Forces driving change

Automation, globalization, demographics, and insights gained from consciousness research, are changing the way we think, perform, and will adapt tomorrow.

Succeeding in uncertain times

Take responsibility for your career

Know yourself. CIarify your purpose, interests, skills, and tasks you want to perform in your ideal job.

Continuously update technical and professional skills and strengthen Quester qualities, described in Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life by Dr. Carole Kanchier