Whats changing in the career marketplace?
Dr. Spencer Niles of Penn State University outlines some of these changes in a recent publication, Adult Career Development (2002). Paraphrasing: (1) Advancing technology computers, the internet, the microchip, high tech (2) Changing toward more team work AND more individual autonomy (3) Competing with international economies global economy, knowledge of foreign political economic and cultural systems 4) Downsizing. An increase in part-time jobs, temporary employees, out-sourcing, subcontracts etc (5) Maintaining a high level of occupational skills and competencies in the shifting and changing world-of-work (6) Having the flexibility to move on to another workplace (7) Decreasing loyalty to the “company (8) Increasing in educational requirements for many occupations: super specialties (9) Changing from knowledge is power to knowledge of science and technology is power (10) Increasing presence of women and mothers in the workforce (11) Shifting in adult career development from career ma
