“Find an organisation where you can spend your entire career.” Such was the advice from my father as I was thinking about my career options so many years ago. While that may have been the dominant thinking forty years ago, today’s Millennial and Gen Z workers are likely to have 10 – 15 jobs and 5 – 7 different careers over their working lives.
Making such dramatic and frequent changes required an agile mindset, and an excellent online article in UNSW’s BusinessThink journal (read it here) addresses this in an engaging way. Drawing on the experience and advice of one of their Alumni (Rob Chan), the article proposes three necessary skills:
- Embrace curiosity
- Work on solutions
- Create change for good
Such skills, which are expanded on in the full article, help develop strategies that can ease the transition to each new career. But even better, they are skills than can help anyone make the most of their current role in life.